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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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In 1996 whilst on holiday in the US, my husband and I were walking the coastal path around the 'cottages' of Newport, Rhode Island. A couple walking towards us heard our accents and stopped - they were British, living in California and naturalised Americans, also on holiday but originally from Bristol, UK, where we live, and where the husband had worked for British Aerospace at Filton, just a few miles from our house. Some days later when driving back to Boston, we decided to visit Martha's Vineyard from Wood's Hole, Cape Cod. On returning from the ferry that evening, we stopped to look at the menu of a local restaurant for dinner; who should come along but the same couple we had met in Newport. We ended up having a meal together - how's that for a coincidence?
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:09:04 +0000Coincidence ID:3788