Remarkable meeting

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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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In 1997, after retiring, my wife and I decided to take a self-drive holiday in New Zealand. On Sunday 9th November we were touring N.Island and stopped around 4pm in a small country town. My wife said that she would like a cup of tea. There were several small cafes and restaurants in the square. We selected one at random and went inside. As I was moving along the servery (choosing cakes!) I received a tap on the shoulder. It was my old Ph.D. supervisor from Bristol University, 45 years earlier. We had met a few times in between, but only at scientific conferences. He was holidaying also with his wife. Neither couple had ever been to New Zealand before. A one in a billion chance? Ron
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