Winter-Mind-9823 t1_iy05b26 wrote
If you win the lottery why would keep buying more lotto tickets
Aetheldrake t1_iy07ebg wrote
To win it AGAIN
Almost impossible, but one or 2 tickets now and then should be more than manageable
Dont forget some dude won a jackpot on a scratch off ticket and when he went to act it out for a tv show or whatever he fucking won another huge sum of money
ironicf8 t1_iy09uah wrote
Statistically you are more likely to win twice than once.
decolored t1_iy0dzls wrote
If you buy 2 tickets you’re more likely to win both than one? Statistics isn’t as simple as words
ironicf8 t1_iy0evdo wrote
No if you win the lottery. Then play again. You are more likely to win the second time than the first. Statistically this is true but that just goes to show how misleading statistics are. It's based on the fact that there is a higher % of people who have won the lottery and then won again, than people who have won vs the general population. I was joking but it is an actual statistic.
decolored t1_iy0fdmt wrote
Ah, so the statistic is actually better worded: if you continue to play the lottery after winning, you are likely to continue to use that lottery winner wealth until you eventually win again, when compared with the average player. Yes indeed that is statistically logical and deceptive
Emu1981 t1_iy108w2 wrote
>if you continue to play the lottery after winning, you are likely to continue to use that lottery winner wealth until you eventually win again, when compared with the average player
Let's say the population is 100 million, you have 1 million lottery players* and of these 1 million lottery players, 1000 have won the jackpot. The ratio of jackpot winners to the general population is 1 in 100,000. If a single one of those jackpot winners wins the jackpot again then the double jackpot winner to single jackpot winner ratio is equal to 1 in 1,000. This means that despite having just a single double jackpot winner, the double jackpot winner is statistically 100 times more common in the jackpot winner population than the single jackpot winner is in the general population.
Note: I have no idea what percentage of the population has actually won a jackpot, the numbers provided are just guesses that let me show what I am getting and to do the maths easier.
*edited to hopefully make some sense looks for his coffee*
*I could probably just remove the reference to the percentage of the population that plays the lottery as it isn't really used at all.
Unitedite t1_iy0hlvi wrote
This is not how probability works. The number of double lottery winners has no bearing on your chance of winning the lottery, regardless of whether or not you've won it yourself.
Maiyku t1_iy0e8tx wrote
I had a guy at one of my old jobs who played scratch offs constantly, but he also won constantly. Biggest win was only $7,000 he said, but he won $1,000 twice in the three years I worked there.
For some random people, it oddly seems worth it.
Emu1981 t1_iy11v9w wrote
>but he won $1,000 twice in the three years I worked there
How much did he spend on tickets over those three years though?
My brother used to be a poker machine junky and would put thousands through them. He would always brag about how he won "$5000" here and "$1000" there but overall he would have been down by tens of thousands of dollars a year despite the wins. I used to go with him sometimes (usually to the Texas Hold'em tournaments and then play the pokies a bit afterwards because he didn't want to leave for a while afterwards) but I would just take like $40 with me to play with and continually buy beers to drink while playing. Despite lucky wins here and there (one time I came home drunk as a skunk with several hundred in gold coins in my pockets lol) I know that I would be down overall on the poker machines.
Maiyku t1_iy1pgwp wrote
He bought 1 ticket a day on his lunch.
He also won more than that while I was there, but I can only remember the $1,000 twice as we talked about it both times.
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