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In other words, declaring your lottery number picks prior to the drawing results in fewer winners than being able to pick your numbers afterwards. Ergo, pre-dec
by biot 11y ago
In other words, declaring your lottery number picks prior to the drawing results in fewer winners than being able to pick your numbers afterwards. Ergo, pre-declaring your picks causes lotteries to stop working.
I really hope the article is satire.
- mizzao 11y agoIt's not satire; that's just the sad state of scientific experimentation. A similar finding was widely publicized for psychology studies: http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-fail-reproducibility-test-1.18248 http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-f...