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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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Many years ago I worked in a retail store in the south of England. 5 years later I was travelling around the United States and ended up on Fishermans wharf in San Francisco. As I walked along, coming towards me was someone that I worked with 5 years earlier - we laughted at the coincedence and parted. Later that year I attended a conference in the north of England and was sitting next to a woman and we got to talk about small worlds - I proceeded to tell the woman about how I was walking along Fishermans' Wharf in SF. Before I could finish my story - The woman gave me the name of the person I had met it was her brother - Now that's a small world.
Date submitted:Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:47:18 +0000Coincidence ID:6295
