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> none was THAT lucky I understand that we humans have natural instincts to uncover plots because as a social animal we have been primed to develop such a skil
by ithkuil 3y ago
> none was THAT lucky
I understand that we humans have natural instincts to uncover plots because as a social animal we have been primed to develop such a skill.
We have also been primed to recognize faces but that can lead us to see them even when there are no faces (e.g. the sphinx on Mars).
We're very bad at intuitively grasping low probability events and large numbers.
I personally know lots of people who have played the lottery but I never met somebody who was THAT lucky to win a jackpot.
Yet those people exist. We understand how the lottery works. It happens regularly enough and transparently enough so it no longer tickles our "corruption/plot/conspiracy" instincts. But if lotteries were never invented and we had one run today and somebody won, I'm pretty sure the default assumption for most people would be to be suspicious about who that person was, why they won, was it a setup etc etc
Unless you have a specific allegation please refrain from insinuating wrong doing just because she came from a corrupted country and was successful.