Sandra M
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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.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
In 2004, both my parents passed away, some months later I had taken my son to the cemetery and decided to show him the graves of his maternal great grandparents who were buried in the same cemetery as my mother and father. As we were standing by my grandparents' grave, my son noticed the date on which my grandfather had passed away which was 21 January which was my late father's birthday (he was still alive when my grandfather passed away) and then made the connection that my father had passed away on my husband's birthday. Which means that my grandfather had passed away on my father's birthday, and my father had passed away on my husband's birthday. As my son made this connection I felt the hairs on the back of my neck rise very slightly and felt a cold shiver go down my back.
Date submitted:Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:47:05 +0000Coincidence ID:5940
