Insignificant to everybody but me

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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 1977 I was studying to repeat my A levels and as part of the curriculum we did "General Studies", a Friday afternoon chat with a well meaning sort whose name escapes me. He was talking about a story where the earths entire population had been destroyed, presumably in some form of M.A.D.. The Martians appeared eons later to find no life but did find a film of Donald Duck and created an entire history and sociology based around a cartoon where we traveled in cars that constantly fell apart. At the same time I had in my case that same story that I had just started to read, I didn't appreciate the link until later in the day on the journey home.
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