A sad day for molluscs

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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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Submitted by david on Tue, 26/10/2010 - 6:46pm

We are sorry to hear that Paul the ‘psychic’ octopus has died. Who would have predicted it? Most people, in fact, since an octopus is only expected to live 2 years. Fortunately a documentary film team got to Paul before his demise and conducted in-depth interviews. They also filmed me doing an explanation of the maths behind Paul – this will probably be cut but at least we now have an article about him!

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