Ancestor Stories

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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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While chatting with a new acquaintance at a new school, we realized that the ancestors on both of our dads' sides had retreated to Taiwan during the Chinese civil war, and that we both have relatives on our moms sides who was doing business in Indonesia at the moment.
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Date submitted:Mon, 23 Apr 2018 04:19:08 +0000Coincidence ID:9995