No, they're comparing a lightning strike over a lifetime with a one-time Powerball jackpot. Instead, assume 50 Powerball tickets a year over 50 years. Then the odds are comparable.
No, they're comparing a lightning strike over a lifetime with a one-time Powerball jackpot. Instead, assume 50 Powerball tickets a year over 50 years. Then the odds are comparable.
No, incorrect reasoning and math. Even if you had 50 x 50 tickets for a single drawing, your odds would only go from 1 in 292 million to 1 in 116,800. The odds per the chart for death by lightning strike is 1 in 138,849. Sure, that's roughly the same odds, 1 in 116.8 K vs. 1 in 138.8 K, but that's for a single drawing of 2500 tickets ($5000, by the way) vs. a LIFETIME of lightning exposure. AND, the odds of each individual lottery drawing are INDEPENDENT of past and future drawings, so 50 tickets a year (2 tickets a week for most of the year, for a lottery that draws 3x a week every week) over 50 years is still 1 in 292,000,000 for EACH drawing. Even if you had a single ticket for 292,000,000 drawings in a row, your odds each time are still 1 in 292,000,000.
“No, they’re comparing a lightning strike over a lifetime with a one-time Powerball jackpot. “
The jackpot is not in the list of lifetime odds. It is merely referenced for comparison.
I do do see odds of being murdered by a “person of color”. Curious where that would fall in that picture.