Coincidence
What is coincidence and why do we attach meaning to it? Jo Fidgen hears World Service listeners鈥� gripping coincidence stories.
What is coincidence and why do we attach meaning to it? Jo Fidgen hears World Service listeners鈥� gripping coincidence stories.
Some of them are almost unbelievable. But are we simply failing to understand randomness, and the law of truly big numbers?
Produced by Charlotte Pritchard
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Ian Greenhalgh, Reverend of Clapham, North Yorkshire, England
Dr Magda Osman, Psychologist at Queen Mary, University of London and author of "Future-minded: The psychology of agency and control"
Professor David Hand, statistician at Imperial College London and author of 鈥淭he Improbability Principle: Why Incredibly Unlikely Things Keep Happening鈥�
Sue and Algy Jonusys 鈥� from Australia
Lena P氓hlsson - from Sweden
Fong Liu 鈥� Chinese singer and storyteller based in Glasgow, Scotland
Estelle 鈥� from France
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- Fri 4 Jul 2014 18:32GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
- Sat 5 Jul 2014 13:32GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
- Sat 5 Jul 2014 22:32GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
- Mon 7 Jul 2014 01:32GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
- Mon 7 Jul 2014 08:32GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
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