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Comment by pflenker

4 days ago

A teacher of mine used to say:

Lottery is a tax for people who don’t understand statistics.

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omani  4 days ago

you probably mean "stochastics".

  • KellyCriterion  4 days ago

    I would translate to: "from a stochastic perspective one can win - from a statistic perspective, its very unlikely"

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