Strange Meetings
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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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On one particular Friday morning last winter I asked a friend of mine to buy a package of 1Kg of sugar because my birthday was coming up that weekend and I wanted to make some sweets but I didn't feel like walking all the way to the market. I had a class to attend in some building near where I live and I knew my friend was going to come to have a lesson right at the time when mine finished so I thought I would see him then and retrieve the sugar. I don't know why but I had a feeling that another third friend of mine would accidentally show up there (I had no reason to assume that) and he actually did. What is more is the fact that I had thought (or hoped) that he would arrive right when the other one was giving me sugar...so that I could invite him (all by accident) to my cake-making party.
Date submitted:Thu, 09 Feb 2017 20:50:20 +0000Coincidence ID:9004
