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Author: NevermoreNevermore Date: Apr 29, 2007 09:37
In 4ax.com> Barnabas Collins wrote:> From: Barnabas Collins gmail.com>
> Newsgroups: alt.magick,alt.religion.wicca
> Subject: Re: Lotto Sorcerer
> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:04:10 -0400
> Organization: None completely disorganized
>
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:57:47 GMT, ato_zee@hotmail.com wrote:
> >>If it's a properly run lottery then the results are random,
>>and have been analysed to prove they are random.
> No they are not random. Every lottery system has a certain
> bias, i.e. a certain number or numbers will occur more
> often than other numbers.
>
> Evey lottery has certain numbers that occur more often than
> others since they use mechanical means to pick the numbers.
If there was any truth to that they would have been shut down by their
respective state gaming license commissions and the public could have
filed class action suits alleging that they fraudulently stated the odds
and fairness of winning. It would take thousands of years of drawings
using the EXACT SAME drawing device to even detect a meaningful
deviation from statistical norms unless something was actually broken or
rigged and the lotteries and regulatory agencies are continuously
checking for that kind of readily detectable error themselves.
In a pool of fifty numbers the fact that one number does something that
someone thinks looks "unusual" in a string of 50 or 100 or 150 or 200 or
250 drawings is statistically meaningless. It's like trying to find
images in clouds - even if you think you see one, so what? What use is
it to you?
Your proof is in the winners themselves - MIT and Princeton spawned a
rash of blackjack cheaters and winning poker players - how many college
math jockeys have won the big lottery jackpots?
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