Probability and the Lottery in Layman's Term probability-and-the-lottery | Page 3

Probability and the Lottery in Layman's Term Do you know why you keep losing the lottery? You probably keep doing the wrong thing and you don't even know it. Truth be told, you can't fix something you don't know exists. Let me cut through the chase. The belief that all combinations in the lottery have an equal chance of coming up should end up once and for all. Because the truth is, number combinations don't have equal probability. And you probably keep playing combinations with very low probability. What's the evidence? Well, I guess the best evidence is to show you a couple of calculations then use the actual lottery draws to prove my calculation. Let me start off by discussing the difference between a number and a combination.