Mr Michael D

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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 born and grew up in a small town in Oxfordshire in 1970. I moved to London and became a doctor and one of my good friends from home moved to London and became a lawyer. He became a partner in a London law firm in 2008. In 2010 I became a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Hastings in East Sussex. The secretary I was given had lived in Hastings for many years but this was her first secretarial job. One day I was talking to my friend on the phone and my secretary asked what he did. I told her and it turned out her sister worked for the same firm as she was a legal secretary in London. A few phone calls later revealed my secretary's sister was my friends secretary!
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