Time Twin
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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.
On my first day at Sunderland University I met a girl in my Halls. It turned out not only were our birthdays 24 hours apart, but that we had been born in the same hospital (in Stockport), where we'd both had jaundice, our mothers were both called Carol (and Carole). Later on in life, we have both ended up living in the same town (Reading) and having our children in the same hospital (with partners that we both met on the University course we studied). The next few sentences are less about coincidence as I suspect we may have been looking too hard for them!; our first teddies had the same name, we played the same position in hockey and our parents had the same china wedding dinner service.
Date submitted:Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:27:12 +0000Coincidence ID:5976
