Of all the houses!
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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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Some 11 years ago we were waiting in embarkation room of the Plymouth Ferry Port seeing our 13 year old daughter off on a school journey to Austria. Our daughter went to school in Torquay, Devon and had lived in the same town since birth. We asked our daughter if she had remembered to make a note of her grandparents address, in order to send them a card. Our daughter repeated the house number and road in Hythe, Kent, some 250 miles away. The conversation, as my daughter repeated the address, was overheard by the mother of one of our daughters school friends. Her friend's mother was amazed and said that she had lived next door to that house when she was a young child. My parents had moved to their house in Hythe in 1964/65. On returning to school after the trip our daughter came home with a childhood photo of the friend's mother standing outside the very house prior to my parents living there.
Date submitted:Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:03:00 +0000Coincidence ID:6004
