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To: SeekAndFind
For comparison’s sake, the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292,000,000. In other words, you are 4000x more likely to die by a lightning strike over your lifetime than to win the Powerball lottery.

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.

3 posted on 01/28/2023 8:38:39 PM PST by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: The people have spoken
For comparison’s sake, the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292,000,000. In other words, you are 4000x more likely to die by a lightning strike over your lifetime than to win the Powerball lottery.

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.

4 posted on 01/28/2023 8:57:54 PM PST by Notthemomma ( )
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To: The people have spoken

“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.


5 posted on 01/28/2023 9:14:53 PM PST by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: The people have spoken

I do do see odds of being murdered by a “person of color”. Curious where that would fall in that picture.


12 posted on 01/29/2023 4:38:01 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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