The wind of change

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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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I was a language assistant at a school in Schleswig-Holstein during the academic year 1987-88, when Germany was still a country of two halves. Nobody foresaw the reunification of east and west except, evidently, the teachers at my school. On the occasion of my birthday (Oct 3rd) they gave me a jokey card with the phrase on the front "Ihr Geburtstag sollte zum nationalen Feiertag erklaert werden" (your birthday should be declared a national holiday). The following year the Berlin Wall came down on that date and Oct 3rd became the Day of German Unity, a holiday throughout the Federal Republic.
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