evening lottery

evening lottery

How come you never see the headline “scientist wins lottery”?

They can predict the weather, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions. They can split atoms even. But how come they can’t win the lottery with their statistics and equations?

Weather, earthquakes, and volcanoes all have warning signs that can tell you what they might do in the future. The lottery is (ostensibly) completely random. Statistics will only tell you your chances of winning, they won’t actually help you win.

If anything, scientists probably play the lottery less than the average person. They can see (and understand) that the incredibly tiny chance of winning doesn’t justify the cost of a weekly ticket.

KDKA Evening Magazine: Commercial Break, 1987