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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 reading Coelhos "Veronika decides to die", it talks about a girl who tries to kill herself with an overdose of pills, she takes them and then she wakes up in an hospital thinking something like "Oh, I'm not dead, and now?".
I work in an hospital and a few day after I read that book we had a patient that tried to kill herself with pills, it was the first time I had a patient who tried suicide. I couldnt believe it, then I read what the psychiatrist wrote (I don't know how to explain exactly: the psychiatrist always writes down what he speaks about with the patients) and her first thought were " oh... i'm not dead yet"...
Date submitted:Wed, 20 Jul 2016 21:03:59 +0000Coincidence ID:8834
