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People who are lucky (never get sick etc.) shouldn't be the ones to buy lottery tickets (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Devgard@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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If you're lucky in one area, what's the chance that you'll be lucky in another?Instead, it should be those who are really unlucky, the lottery might balance out their luck 💀

edit: I forgot about ~~mutually exclusive~~ independent events probability ty everyone

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[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

People who believe in luck are the ones to buy lottery tickets or think they have a system for winning at a casino.

People who understand statistics know that the lottery is a tax on people who believe in luck.

When playing poker, there are always more optimists at the table than statisticians. Be the statistician...

this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2023

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