Ghosts from the past
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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 moved to Sweden from England 44 years ago and worked for a while as a postdoc at a university here. 7 years ago I was taken ill and spent some time in hospital, partly in the care of a doctor who turned out to be the daughter of the professor I worked with all that time ago. As if that was not enough, the person in the next bed had a visit from a niece-by-partnership. The visitor recognized me in the next bed: she had worked as a laboratory assistant for the very same professor when I first started here. We had not had any contact for at least 40 years.
Date submitted:Thu, 31 May 2018 14:53:03 +0000Coincidence ID:10043
