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> The lottery is an accepted tax on math morons, as my old teacher liked to say. This glib old chestnut falls apart when you ask the "math savvy" what the prob
by anjc 4y ago
> The lottery is an accepted tax on math morons, as my old teacher liked to say.
This glib old chestnut falls apart when you ask the "math savvy" what the probability of winning is when a person buys more than 1 ticket. Probabilities are unintuitive here (albeit simple) such that most people are "morons".
- bombcar 4y agoEven then the whole thing breaks down because the chance of winning is so astronomically small