Even weirder are the ones who know the math, agree with you that something is a good bet for them to take, and then refuse to bet anyway!
I know a number of mathematically literate people who buy lottery tickets. Their usual justification is that they pay for happiness provided by the hope of winning.
Mathematically literate like grad students, or quants? I’d expect to hear that justification much more from the former group than the latter. It doesn’t hold water, right?
I know a number of mathematically literate people who buy lottery tickets. Their usual justification is that they pay for happiness provided by the hope of winning.
Mathematically literate like grad students, or quants? I’d expect to hear that justification much more from the former group than the latter. It doesn’t hold water, right?
Why is the top-level comment retracted?
Because someone downvoted it. If I had to guess why they did it, it’d probably be some combination of these:
It doesn’t answer OP’s question—I think Blackened was asking something more specific than what I answered.
It comes across as overconfident (whoops)
It’s needlessly personal (self-aggrandizing) -- the word “I” shouldn’t appear in it at all.