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As part of our luck and probability series, we challenged 1,500 people across Britain to compare the odds of seven likely and unlikely events - 99.5% got it wrong.
One name kept coming up when we started our research into probability - and that was no coincidence. David J. Hand OBE is a senior research investigator and emeritus professor of mathematics at Imperial College, London.
We challenged 1,500 people across Britain to compare their chances of dying in a road accident to six other likely and unlikely events. Only 0.5% got it right.