Midwife!
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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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Around Christmas 2011 we received a piece of mis-delivered post, an NHS registration card for a new baby born by the name of Martha, who lived across the other side of the city in a similarly named street. A few days later, the local midwife knocked at the door, also looking for baby Martha. She was very surprised to see me and told me she had been thinking about me just that day. She said she had attended a young woman who had just given birth and the new grandmother showed the midwife a photograph of the three of them when the young mother herself had just been born. The photograph was taken in my house, in my now bedroom. Three days later I found I was pregnant and had to ask the midwife to come back!
Date submitted:Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:57:24 +0000Coincidence ID:10105
