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Why you shouldn't play the lottery


Fatboy73

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I found this, it's pretty cool. There's different setting you can check, but it basically picks random winning numbers and random numbers for you. I tells you below how much money you've spent, how much you've made and how much of a return your getting on your dollar. I've been playing for about 200 years so far and am $50,000 in the hole with no big win in sight.

http://justwebware.com/powerball/powerball.html
 
Thats pretty cool mate, according to that I´ve been playing for 50 years and I have only won $661 and lost $9.739
It really is a waste of money
 
Some other things you have a better chance of doing or have happen to you than winning the lottery.

Odds of bowling a 300 game: 11,500 to 1

Odds of getting a hole in one: 5,000 to 1

Odds of getting canonized: 20,000,000 to 1

Odds of being an astronaut: 13,200,000 to 1

Odds of winning an Olympic medal: 662,000 to 1

Odds of an American speaking Cherokee: 15,000 to 1

Odds that a person between the age of 18 and 29 does NOT read a newspaper regularly: 3 to 1

Odds that an American adult does not want to live to age 120 under any circumstances: 3 to 2

Odds of injury from fireworks: 19,556 to 1

Odds of injury from shaving: 6,585 to 1

Odds of injury from using a chain saw: 4,464 to 1

Odds of injury from mowing the lawn: 3,623 to 1

Odds of fatally slipping in bath or shower: 2,232 to 1

Odds of drowning in a bathtub: 685,000 to 1

Odds of being killed on a 5-mile bus trip: 500,000,000 to 1

Odds of being killed sometime in the next year in any sort of transportation accident: 77 to 1

Odds of being killed in any sort of non-transportation accident: 69 to 1

Odds of being struck by lightning: 576,000 to 1

Odds of being killed by lightning: 2,320,000 to 1

Odds of being murdered: 18,000 to 1

Odds of getting away with murder: 2 to 1

Odds of being the victim of serious crime in your lifetime: 20 to 1

Odds of dating a supermodel: 88,000 to 1

Odds of being considered possessed by Satan: 7,000 to 1

Odds that a first marriage will survive without separation or divorce for 15 years: 1.3 to 1

Odds that a celebrity marriage will last a lifetime: 3 to 1

Odds of getting hemorrhoids: 25 to 1

Odds of being born a twin in North America: 90 to 1

Odds of being on plane with a drunken pilot: 117 to 1

Odds of being audited by the IRS: 175 to 1

Odds of having your identity stolen: 200 to 1

Odds of dating a millionaire: 215 to 1

Odds of dating a supermodel: 88,000 to 1

Odds of finding out your child is a genius: 250 to 1

Odds of catching a ball at a major league ballgame: 563 to 1

Odds of becoming a pro athlete: 22,000 to 1

Odds of finding a four-leaf clover on first try: 10,000 to 1

Odds of a person in the military winning the Medal of Honor: 11,000 to 1

Odds of winning an Academy Award: 11,500 to 1

Odds of striking it rich on Antiques Roadshow: 60,000 to 1

Odds of getting a royal flush in poker on first five cards dealt: 649,740 to 1
 
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Odds of spotting a UFO today: 3,000,000 to 1

Odds of becoming president: 10,000,000 to 1

Odds of winning the California lottery: 13,000,000 to 1

Odds of becoming a saint: 20,000,000 to 1

Odds of a meteor landing on your house: 182,138,880,000,000 to 1

Chance of an American home having at least one container of ice cream in the freezer: 9 in 10.

Chance of dying from any kind of injury during the next year: 1 in 1,820

Chance of dying from intentional self-harm: 1 in 9,380

Chance of dying from an assault: 1 in 16,421

Chance of dying from a car accident: 1 in 18,585

Chance of dying from any kind of fall: 1 in 20,666

Chance of dying from accidental drowning: 1 in 79,065

Chance of dying from exposure to smoke, fire, and flames: 1 in 81,524

Chance of dying in an explosion: 1 in 107,787

Chance that Earth will experience a catastrophic collision with an asteroid in the next 100 years: 1 in 5,000

Chance of dying in such a collision: 1 in 20,000

Chance of dying from exposure to forces of nature (heat, cold, lightning, earthquake, flood): 1 in 225,107

Chance of dying in an airplane accident: 1 in 354,319

Chance of dying from choking on food: 1 in 370,035

Chance of dying in a terrorist attack while visiting a foreign country: 1 in 650,000

Chance of dying in a fireworks accident: 1 in 1,000,000

Chance of dying from overexertion, travel or privation: 1 in 1,428,377

Chance of dying from food poisoning: 1 in 3,000,000

Chance of dying from legal execution: 1 in 3,441,325

Chance of dying from contact with hot tap water: 1 in 5,005,564

Chance of dying from parts falling off an airplane: 1 in 10,000,000

Chance of dying from ignition or melting of nightwear: 1 in 30,589,556

Chance of dying from being bitten by a dog: 1 in 700,000

Chance of dying from contact with a venomous animal or plant: 1 in 3,441,325

Chance of dying from being bitten or struck by mammals (other than dogs or humans): 1 in 4,235,477

Chance of dying from a mountain lion attack in California: 1 in 32,000,000

Chance of dying from a shark attack: 1 in 300,000,000

Chance of having a stroke: 1 in 6

Chance of dying from heart disease: 1 in 3

Chance of getting arthritis: 1 in 7

Chance of suffering from asthma or allergy diseases: 1 in 6

Chance of getting the flu this year: 1 in 10

Chance of contracting the human version of mad cow disease: 1 in 40,000,000

Chance of dying from SARS in the United States: 1 in 100,000,000

Chance of American man developing cancer in his lifetime: 1 in 2

Chance of an American woman developing cancer in her lifetime: 1 in 3

Chance of getting prostate cancer: 1 in 6

Chance of getting breast cancer: 1 in 9

Chance of getting colon / rectal cancer: 1 in 26

Chance of beating pancreatic or liver cancer: 1 in 9

Chance of beating thyroid or testicular cancer: 9 in 10
 
You're making me sleepy with the list Fatboy. But this one got my attention:

Odds of getting canonized: 20,000,000 to 1

I was sure it had to be more. I think I'll go for that one. Piece o' cake!
 
Oh come on Clare. Statistics are a completely scintillating subject. Why...when I have to pull an all nighter for work, I just say screw the coffee and take a statistics break every four hours or so. Works like a charm. :wink:
 
I think some numbers are really bad, for example I suspect canonisation is computed from all saint and all people on the Earth, but it has to be from all people in last two thousand years. The most I do not believe these two, that would be a real massacre :

Odds of being killed sometime in the next year in any sort of transportation accident: 77 to 1
Odds of being killed in any sort of non-transportation accident: 69 to 1

Otherwise interesting numbers and impulse to think about it.
 
I agree on that one pets. I know more than 77 people of whom 1 hasn't been killed in the last year in an auto accident. Did that make sense. Maybe someone knows 3 or 4 who have. Pretty scary if it's true, but considering the countries where such transport is minimal . . .
 
Yes, it is more than one percent, it would make like three million dead in US only.

BTW I have heard a nice comparison of chances to win jackpot in lottery on TV when there was an astronomical sum in some state, people were traveling there even from Canada. He said you are on the top of Empire Square Building with a coin, somewhere on Manhattan is a fast food drink cup and you do not have a clue where. When you toss the coin, chances to hit the cup is higher, than hitting the jackpot.
Second is from Germany, similar situation, also TV, he said if the neanderthal family bought a ticket each Sunday since their times, they probably would not win jackpot till today.
 
Or as my husband said, like getting hit by lightning three times in a row! Actually, I think he said you'd have a better chance of getting hit by lightning 3 X in a row than winning the lottery . . .

Tx for sharing peta.
 
You are welcome. Your husband is of course absolutely right from the statistical point of view, although there is a slight difference in execution. You cannot help yourself to hit the jackpot, but for example swinging a golf club in the field during a storm ... :D Yes, I know, there is still the problem how to survive two strikes.
 
peta62 said:
You cannot help yourself to hit the jackpot
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Well my Aunt swears that basing her picks on the number of digits on each sign of the zodiac, then saying 15 hail Mary's while dancing an Irish jig gives her an advantage on winning. So there go your statistics right out the window. :wink:
 
Fatboy73 said:
Well my Aunt swears that basing her picks on the number of digits on each sign of the zodiac, then saying 15 hail Mary's while dancing an Irish jig gives her an advantage on winning. So there go your statistics right out the window. :wink:
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You mean she goes from 13,000,000 to 1 up to 12,999,999 to 1 or sometimes even to 12,999,998 to 1 ? That's witchery.
 
peta62 said:
You mean she goes from 13,000,000 to 1 up to 12,999,999 to 1 or sometimes even to 12,999,998 to 1 ? That's witchery.
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I know, right? There was always some slightly off about her. If only one could expect a Spanish Inquisition or something...
 
You are more likely to be hit by a falling ice block from a passenger jet, than be struck by lightning, but at the same time now thems are some odds.
 
so what are the chances of winning the lottery - in perspective?
say around a 1 in 175million chance approx in the US.

In my head, I'm thinking of 1 second over the course of the next 24 hours.
If i were to ask you, what second am i thinking of?
(eg. 3:45am and 57 secs)

- that's around a 1 in 86,000 chance of being correct

So, expanding it a little, if you were to choose 1 second over the course of the next month/30days.

(say for example- 14th aug, 10.09pm and 14secs)

that's a 1 in 2.5million chance of being correct.

Which means, your chances of winning the lottery, are about the same as you choosing the correct second over the course of about the next 5 and a half YEARS!

So whose playing the next one then?
 
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