Shared Acquaintance

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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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When I was aged 20 I worked for one year as a secretary in a five star hotel in Tenerife. I was given staff accommodation - a twin bedded room which I had all to myself for most of my time there. However, for about two months in the middle of my term of office an English girl was employed as an assistant and she shared my room. After I left the hotel I had my first job in England as a secretary at Manchester Polytechnic. I became friendly with the secretary of the English and History Department there. One Friday afternoon we were discussing our plans for the weekend and this girl said she was spending the weekend at her girlfriend's house in Sheffield. After chatting about her friend for a while, it transpired that it was the same girl who had shared my room in Tenerife. Di
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