Three of a kind
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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 joined a company, Newtime Foods, on the 1st December 1980 in the Sales Department, which consisted of 8 people including myself. One of the first things that I was told was that I would be expected to be on duty during some part of the period between Christmas Day and New Years Day as there was a special service to our customers for their stocking up after the Christmas rush. I was happy to agree but I expressed the hope to a colleague that I could be excused 29th December for the rota as it was my birthday. He replied that he could not agree to that as it was his birthday and he was senior to me. After I had absorbed this, he said that even if it hadn't been his birthday, I still couldn't have it because our top manager also had the same birthday. Three of us in a department of 8. Unusual to say the least.
Date submitted:Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:37:42 +0000Coincidence ID:5406
