Lots of different examples

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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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Here are a few examples: Me and my ex-partner met a couple in Antigua in 1988 - they were getting married on the day of my 30th birthday so asked us to act as witnesses as no one else was with them. A few years later we were at the airport leaving Florida and bumped into them as we both waited for a plane heading home to different UK airports. Another time I was backstage at a major music concert miles from where I live as my (then) partner was marketing the band. Suddenly someone called my name and it turned out to be a man who had been in my class at school and had had a major crush on me. He was there managing the support band. I worked as a therapist and lived about 20 miles from where I grew up on the outskirts of London. A client told me some information about a man she was having an affair with, and - on checking some of the facts - it turns out it was someone who had dated my sister for years in her teens/twenties. Needless to say I wasn't able to tell either party!
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Date submitted:Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:23:41 +0000Coincidence ID:5233