You also have the situation where the lottery commission desperately wants you to play the lottery, so they put out advertising materials for it which subvert t

You also have the situation where the lottery commission desperately wants you to play the lottery, so they put out advertising materials for it which subvert the whole idea of improving numeracy to counteract the lottery. For years you couldn't walk into an NY bodega without seeing a cardboard cutout of a smiling man with lottery tickets saying "It pays to win!"