WHEN IN ROME
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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
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In the mid 1980's we were invited to a party by my husband's second cousins, whom I have never met.
I did not want to go and the deal was that I would have a new outfit!
I bought a red dress and a few weeks later, on a week long trip to Rome, as well as sightseeing, I looked in virtually every shoe shop for matching shoes. Finally, in desperation, my husband lost patience. I was looking in yet another shop and said to him"well, if I don't get shoes, then I am not going to the party".
"Tell them yourself" he said - the cousins were looking in the same window for shoes for the same event.
Date submitted:Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:54:17 +0000Coincidence ID:5841
