• ByteWizard@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    When did I say there weren’t any winners? I said people think there’s a chance that they might win personally. And you can state the gamblers fallacy any way you like, the fact that there are winners in a lottery has nothing to with the chances of winning personally. Bad at math, bad at logic, too emotional, call it anything you like. Any hope is a result of these flaws, not the cause.

    https://www.palomar.edu/users/bthompson/Gambler's Fallacy.html

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      Probably more likely to turn 20$ into a fortune playing the lottery than most other ways you could invest it.

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        1 year ago

        Honestly, chances might be extremely low. But if all it takes is a couple of bucks sometimes to maybe win even 1000, I’d take it.