Greek chance
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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 the summer of 1980 my brother and his girlfriend flew to the Greek Islands for a 2 week holiday. Several days after they left for Greece, I rang a travel agent looking for a last minute holiday to anywhere on the Continent .He rang back to say he had a last minute offer of a flight only to Corfu and I took I took the offer. Several days after arriving in Corfu, I flew to Athens and several days later took a ferry to the the island of Ios in the Aegean. On my first night there while walking down a street I happened to glance into a bar at the same time as my brothers girlfriend_ who had her back to the street_ turned around and I went in and met up with them !. Had she not turned around at that exact moment I would have walked on. We had"nt arranged to meet up and they were planning to travel to another island the next day.
Date submitted:Mon, 15 May 2017 21:39:54 +0000Coincidence ID:9143
