"You're on your lonesome, into infinity."

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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.

I was reading a Twitter post from Richard Wiseman: it said, "Pick up the nearest book to you, turn to page 45. The first sentence explains your love life." There was a copy of The Hell of It All by Charlie Brooker right next to me, and the first sentence on page 45 was, "You're on your lonesome, into infinity." And it was dead right.
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