Data reported in this paper is part of a larger study which explored form five (14 to 16 year olds) students' ideas in probability and statistics. This paper presents and discusses the ways in which students made sense of task involving independence construct obtained from the individual interviews. The findings revealed that many of the students used strategies based on beliefs, prior experiences (everyday and school) and intuitive strategies such as representativeness. While more students showed competence on coin tossing question they were less competent on the birth order question. This could be due to contextual or linguistic problems. The paper concludes by suggesting some implications for further research. [For complete proceedings, see ED496851.]