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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.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
In September of 2005 I hired a woman to work as my administrative assistant in Duncan BC (on Vancouver Island). In October that year, she and her mother travelled to Vanderhoof BC (northern BC) for a visit and proceeded to tell old family friends about the job, about me and about the organization. In November of 2005 I met a man on Plenty of Fish. He lived in Richmond BC. I was unsure how to pronounce his name but knew that he was Dutch origin, as was my new admin. When I asked her about how to pronounce the name, she immediately wanted to know how I knew this man. I said I had met him online and was going to be meeting him in person soon. It turns out he was the son of the family friends she had just been visiting and she hadn't seen him in in 20 years. The coincidence is something that we still talk about today. Through him I also identified others that were family friends that I knew before we had met. When this lovely admin died prematurely, we attended her memorial service, he knowing half of her friends (those from Vanderhoof) and me knowing the other half (from Vancouver Island.)
Date submitted:Tue, 07 Aug 2012 20:47:38 +0000Coincidence ID:6457
