WHO WERE YOU AT SCHOOL WITH?

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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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On in holiday in 2008 made friends with a couple from Wales with whom we have since gone on holiday with annually - partly because both husbands have common interest in photography. Idly sitting round talking while on the one of these holidays, I discovered that the wife of the other couple had been to exactly the same primary and junior schools as I had in the late 50s, and had overlapped although she was a couple of years behind me. Neither us have lived in that area for many years so there was no obvious connection.
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:02:13 +0000Coincidence ID:4230

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Sat, 14/01/2012 - 6:09pm

Flying back to the UK from Hong Kong in 2001, it was our first visit after the opening of the new airport. I suddenly bumped into a university contemporary, who had then been one of my closest friends. We had not seen each other for the best part of 10 years although still keeping in touch. And of course we were all, less surprisingly, flying back to the UK on the same flight.