Two Mums

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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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In 2007 my mother, who was then 87, had a hip replaced at our local hospital. When she went into a medical ward to recover I was putting her clothes in the cupboard by her bed. In the drawer I found a list of clothes headed with a name I recognised. This was my friend's mother-in-law whom I have never met but as her name is quite unusual I checked with my friend and her mother-in-law had been in the same bed immediately before my mother and had forgotten to remove the list of clothes she had taken in for her stay in hospital.
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