Wrong Number
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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 standing in my living room speaking to a contractor that was working in our house. He was the supervisor and he would drop by the house a few times a week to inspect the progress of the work and check in with his workers. His name is Kevin. My mobile phone rings and I answer and the other party asks to speak to Kevin. I hand the phone to Kevin and he proceeds to tell the other party that "no I do not have a cadillac for sale, you must have the wrong number". The probability of such an event is so low that I believe that what I witnessed was a glitch in the Matrix.
Date submitted:Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:14:41 +0000Coincidence ID:6040
