Can you confidently assert (p > 0.8) that, since the advent of modern lotteries, at least a thousand people have arrived independently in circumstances under which buying lottery tickets was a non-stupid action?
Can you confidently assert (p > 0.8) that, since the advent of modern lotteries, at least a thousand people have arrived independently in circumstances under which buying lottery tickets was a non-stupid action?
That sounds reasonable to me—though it is not what I claimed. For instance, if someone in authority tells you to buy a lottery ticket for them.
Can you confidently assert (p > 0.8) that, since the advent of modern lotteries, at least a thousand people have arrived independently in circumstances under which buying lottery tickets was a non-stupid action?
What kind of circumstances were they?
That sounds reasonable to me—though it is not what I claimed. For instance, if someone in authority tells you to buy a lottery ticket for them.