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by pflenker 160 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 159 days ago
you probably mean "stochastics".
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KellyCriterion 159 days ago
I would translate to: "from a stochastic perspective one can win - from a statistic perspective, its very unlikely"
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