• bufordt@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I agree that people shouldn’t be afraid of this stuff, but I think you underestimate the odds of winning the lottery and your chances of being murdered.

    Around 32,000 homicides/year in the US. 333,000,000 people, so about 1 in 100,000.

    Powerball odds are 1 in 292,000,000.

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      11 months ago

      the distribution is different though, if you buy a powerball ticket you have the same odds as everyone else who bought one assuming the numbers are equally distributed and truly random

      the difference between living in Biden’s suburban neighborhood in Delaware vs west Philly or Baltimore is huge