Geoffrey Dannell FSA

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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.

Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.

In 1962 I was driving a cream-coloured Landrover on a Yugoslav main road returning home from a visit to Greece with my wife. Approaching me, another similar Landrover appeared, and the closing speed must have been more than 100 mph. I saw that it had a UK number-plate - and as it passed I looked in the rear-view mirror - only to see the girl-friend of my own closest friend sitting on the tailgate. She had seen me and we stopped and reversed up. She was on an archaeological trip to Turkey.
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