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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 wanted to contact one unfamiliar editor and sent him an email, but there was no answer for more than a week. So I decided to phone, but didn't do it several days, being in wrong mood or busy. On Friday I felt okay to phone, but missed at least 3 urges, on the 4th I just picked up the phone and made a call. I told him my name and was very surprised to hear the answer: "You must be calling me because I've just sent my answer to your email..." That was his first day after vacation, he read my email, that had been sent 2 weeks before, and sent his answer right at the same moment I was making my long-delayed phone call.
What's more peculiar, this coincidence happened to me when I was preparing an article about coincidences.
Date submitted:Tue, 22 Nov 2016 15:23:28 +0000Coincidence ID:8944
