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Stupid question: the reason he's questioning the equal probability of 1111111 being drawn is because it seems significant. It looks like it is less likely to b
by anjc 13y ago
Stupid question: the reason he's questioning the equal probability of 1111111 being drawn is because it seems significant. It looks like it is less likely to be drawn. But we know it is equally likely.
But forgetting the actual fair drawing process and just focussing on randomly choosing a number from a set of numbers...if you divide a set of numbers into significant-looking and insignificant-looking, would it not be true to say that a random choice is more likely to look insignificant and random, than significant and ordered, purely because there are far more insignificant looking ones?
(I'm not saying that 11111111 isn't equally likely to be drawn in a lotto here)