Hugs
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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 was picking my daughter up from a night out. She had been to see her boyfriend and had met his sister and mum and dad for the first time.
We had just gone about a minute in to the return journey when I asked her if her boyfriend had given her a hug when she got of the bus when she had arrived. Then I asked her if his sister had given her a hug too. As I asked this last question I was approaching a roundabout and a car sped across and in front of us. The last three letters of the number plate were HUG....
Date submitted:Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:04:49 +0000Coincidence ID:8941
