Niagara Falls
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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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Just about to disembark the Maid of the Mist, the boat that takes visitors to closely view Niagara Falls, an American lady asked us where we were from. We replied 'a very small village in Lancashire, UK, with about 100 inhabitants'. Walking past the queue for the next trip, we heard a voice call out and were astonished to see neighbours who live about 200 yards away, one of whom had been our son's very good friend at school.
Other coincidences: I was born on my father's 25th birthday.
And: As a modern languages student in the 70's, part of the course entailed spending several months abroad. As I was travelling from Cumbria, I had arranged to stay overnight with a female friend before leaving the next day for foreign parts. Pulling into Finsbury Park tube station, I was staggered to see a former school friend walking along the platform and he spent the evening showing me round. We never met again. However, six years later his mother acted as the registrar at my wedding.
Date submitted:Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:11:24 +0000Coincidence ID:5381
