The Why Factor
The Why Factor
BBC World Service
Coincidence
17 minutes Posted Jul 4, 2014 at 5:45 pm.
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What is coincidence and why do we attach meaning to it? Jo Fidgen hears World Service listeners’ 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

(Photo of a young woman with her hands over face. Credit: Getty Images)