Fancy Meeting You!
As of the 23rd May 2022 this website is archived and will receive no further updates.
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.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
On a flight from Florida to Heathrow (UK), I told the pleasant stranger seated next to me that I was from the Isle of Wight, whereupon she said that her best friend lived there. Thinking I might know the friend, I asked where she lived; my seatmate named my home village & proffered her friend's name--which I immediately recognized as belonging to someone I did indeed know: my father's cousin.
In similar vein, a visitor at the company where I worked, mentioned that she had lived in the town where I was currently residing; without my asking, she told me her old address: it was mine.
Date submitted:Tue, 23 Feb 2016 20:42:14 +0000Coincidence ID:8415
