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[–]Mike_Froese 155 points156 points ago

My sister's biology project also made it clear that she does not understand fun facts

[–]Chazzey_dude 36 points37 points ago

Hah! Dead bunnies! Priceless.

[–]WastedAtheist 7 points8 points ago

relevant

[–]Barbarus623 0 points1 point ago

I bought this book. and the sequel. Best $20 I ever spent 8 years ago.

[–]Chazzey_dude 0 points1 point ago

This has been sitting on my bookcase for the last few years.

[–]Tebasaki 1 point2 points ago

I've got "Ways to Kill a Cat."

[–]StraY_WolF 13 points14 points ago

I'm sure she had fun doing it though.

[–]Black_Apalachi 5 points6 points ago

But there are SIXTEEN species! And they celebrate their birthdays!!! I'm having so much fun right now guys. :)

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[–]Kjulo 6 points7 points ago

Do not click, Spam

[–]jsmayne 39 points40 points ago

Your chance of winning the lottery are 3 times better than winning $10,000 in McDs Monopoly game

[–]Sexy_Rhino 14 points15 points ago

Is that taking into the probability that you may meet a McDonald's insider?

[–]jsmayne 8 points9 points ago

your chances of winning.

my chances as an insider however...

[–]Pravusmentis 1 point2 points ago

I know a guy who works there, let's just say no one would stop him if he went downstairs and got a few boxes of those hashbrowns holders which all have tags on them

[–]pisdrunxrich 1 point2 points ago

Edit: he got caught because he tried selling them on ebay, and his manager bidded on them, then confronted the worker

[–]xmsxms 9 points10 points ago

While this may be true for a single game, you should take into account the cost of entry to the McDs monopoly is essentially "free", whereas the real lottery costs significantly more.

So you can enter the McDs lottery an enormous number of times for "free" (assuming you are happy to buy an enormous amount of McDs) and your chances of winning a game would go up significantly.

[–]ksamim 2 points3 points ago

I don't think you deserve those downvotes. I think you are correct here, you are getting tickets along with the food you bought. The buyin is different and the two games are not analogous.

[–]Pravusmentis 2 points3 points ago

can't you also write them a letter and get a free game piece? I seem to recall that once worked, of course now postage is huge but still

[–]Thethoughtful1 1 point2 points ago

In the US that is a requirement of sweepstakes, I believe. I don't recall ever seeing one that did not say, "No purchase required."

[–]jsmayne 2 points3 points ago

you can write them for a game piece. but thats 2 envelopes hand addressed and 2 stamps $0.90. plus time.

hashbrown is $1 possibly 2 for $1.50 at least that is what it was last year. so 4 game pieces for less than the cost to mail for 4 "free" game pieces

[–]Thethoughtful1 -1 points0 points ago

Ya, I am pretty sure it is mostly for legal reasons.

[–]mordacthedenier 2 points3 points ago

The cost of entering the McDonalds' monopoly is you have to then eat the food.

[–]Black_Apalachi -1 points0 points ago

Unless you're one of the dudes in the company that runs the competition, of course AMIRITE??

[–]zeroes0 0 points1 point ago

False, the odds are 50%. You either win or you don't...I like those odds.

[–]LM2500 46 points47 points ago

  • are

[–]potodds 4 points5 points ago

asking: would it not be the chance... is? Or is it plural because there are multiple tickets? I always break down the probability of such things as a fraction of 1/x.

[–]TFly3 9 points10 points ago

Chances are plural here in the sense that the "odds" are plural. That is to say, there are only so many chances/out of 1,000,000 that you will win. It's a probabilistic fraction.

[–]joshjje 3 points4 points ago

I think it can be said either way in a context like this, though of course the is/are needs to match correctly.

[–]Logana320 29 points30 points ago

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/399/502/960.jpg

[–]freebzz 0 points1 point ago

well done...

[–][deleted] 36 points37 points ago

That's a nice soundbite but it's only true depending on what lottery you're playing and whether or not you consider $1,000 or so winning. Because then the chance is much better. With that said, you're better investing $1,000 into a CD or whatever, but if you live paycheck to paycheck, lottery here and there isn't that bad. I also drink a lot and smoke cigarettes. I should quit, but I don't really want to that bad, so it's hard. A close friend is also dying. I hate my life.

[–]Shainsworth 29 points30 points ago

That sure took a dark turn.

[–]pdb01 5 points6 points ago

What were the odds of that one eh?

[–]Bucket_head 2 points3 points ago

Much higher than winning the lottery.

[–]DownvoteAttractor -1 points0 points ago

With a username like shitigohard? More than likely.

[–]Pravusmentis 1 point2 points ago

Hey man, if you've never considered it I'd say to check out homebrewing, it can be great way to meet people and you'll save money one beer* (*note, this is up for debate, you will spend the same money on beer, but you will get a much higher quality beer for your price, I consider that savings, some don't,,,,comma,)

[–]rentalanimal 2 points3 points ago

Yeah! Beer!

[–]appliedphilosophy 0 points1 point ago

I am wondering how you would justify: "but if you live paycheck to paycheck, lottery here and there isn't that bad"

Every cigarette smoked is far more dangerous than a lotery ticket. In fact, it costs you about 1 micromort... each... one.

[–]MrMudcat 0 points1 point ago

I agree, I would argue that a lottery ticket here and there is worse if you are living paycheck to paycheck. After seeing who buys lots of lottery tickets, I am pretty sure that the lottery is just a clever way to tax the poor/uneducated without raising their taxes.

[–]experts_never_lie 7 points8 points ago

"Either way, I'm set for life!"

[–]LeCrushinator 15 points16 points ago

Green circle in center of picture: iPhone 4 camera. True story.

[–]blacksparrow119 5 points6 points ago

Oh my god I thought I was the only that saw that! Thought my eyes were goin

[–]throwawaymechanic37 1 point2 points ago

:( I'm colorblind, I don't see the green circle.

[–]LeCrushinator 1 point2 points ago

Sympathy upvote. At least you don't know what you're missing.

[–]MyOtherAltIsAHuman 8 points9 points ago

Fact check!

Chances of winning the jackpot for Mega Millions or Powerball is roughly 1 in 175 million.

In 2010, 17 thousand drivers died in motor vehicle accidents. This is out of 3 trillion miles driven that year. This means that one driver dies for every 175 million miles driven.

If we assume that you only buy one ticket, and if we only include your drive to the store (not back), then this fact is true, assuming that the store where you buy tickets is located more than one mile away from you.

[–]saltlets 13 points14 points ago

And if the store is less than one mile away and you're driving there, the chances of you dying of a heart attack go up astronomically.

[–]fatfook 5 points6 points ago

You've negated literally hundreds of ways to die, each with their own probability attached.

[–]Skyline969 0 points1 point ago

Yup, this is only the odds of dying in a car accident, and that assumes that you drive to the store. It doesn't take into account lightning strikes, spontaneous combustion, a nuclear strike, alien abduction... I think you get the point here.

[–]fatfook 0 points1 point ago

You might be terminally ill with cancer and happen to shuffle of your mortal coil whilst queuing up for your ticket. Ad infinitum.

[–]ahotw 0 points1 point ago

I think the key is to look at deaths in motor vehicle accidents and other modes of transportation where the driver/passenger/etc was on their way to purchase a lottery ticket. No where was it said they had to be driving, or even in a car. Bus? Walking? And there's no reason to include data from trips other than to get a lottery ticket.

[–]TheTVDB 4 points5 points ago

Someone will inevitably refer to the lottery as the idiot tax, and I suppose that's true for people that play thinking that they're actually going to win. I was a math major in college, won various math competitions in high school, and understand the odds better than most.

Yet I still buy lottery tickets once in a while. Why? Because it's not about thinking I'm going to win, but rather the value in thinking about what I would do if I did win. It's fun to think about how you could spend $100m. I don't go out drinking, don't smoke, don't do drugs, don't hire hookers, etc so spending $10/month on lottery tickets is well worth the entertainment value it provides.

[–]timothyjwood 0 points1 point ago

Does that mean that you would NOT spend your 100 million on drugs, drinking, smoking, and hookers? I can see how it could be difficult to figure out how to spend it all then.

[–]TripperDay 1 point2 points ago

I like to think about winning the lottery too. Last week I was drunk and told a girl "I want to win the lottery, a really big one, then change how people think and consume."

Her: "How would you even start doing that?"

Me: "Well I could start buying lottery tickets."

[–]appliedphilosophy -2 points-1 points ago

I am sure you can find alternative and more efficient ways of doing what you say. "Because it's not about thinking I'm going to win, but rather the value in thinking about what I would do if I did win."

Also, $10/month can be of HUGE help to efficient charities http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/where-to-give

[–]SeveralViolins 0 points1 point ago

The point he was making is that no one lives their lives in an economic fashion, so arguments saying it's stupid not too are facetious because they totally ignore the incommensurable nature of emotive actions.

Also, you know what would be a huge help to charities? Pretty much donating every single penny you didn't need for security and survival. But that's really not really realistic is it... and once again ignores the fact that a lot of people tend to donate to charities not because of economic gain (with the exception of tax exemptions), but because of the inate emotional rewards of altruism.

[–]appliedphilosophy 0 points1 point ago

The fact that everyone does a stupid thing doesn't make it smart :P

I am just pointing out that if you have a limited amount of resources to help people, you can make up to 1000 more social good if you employ them intelligently. Yes, that's a documented quantity. 1000 times more good. Yep. Sure you can feel good about what you do and that helps you... but if you are maximizing your positive effect, then there are good and bad ideas. A good one is to donate to the top most effective charities. Specially for malaria, man. For malaria prevention charities, donating 300 bucks saves, on average, one human life. I challenge you to find a better use to 300 bucks.

[–]fucking_leverpostej 2 points3 points ago

"RISK", for fuck's sake.

[–]ReturningTarzan 2 points3 points ago

Or "probability" when in doubt.

[–]fucking_leverpostej 0 points1 point ago

Exactly, my friend. Exactly.

[–]LGNNN 2 points3 points ago

About 6 months ago when the mega millions went up super high a ton of nurses from my work got together and bought a whole bunch of tickets. One male nurse was so adamant about this fact about your chances of dying. A few days after he brought this up he got hit by a truck on his motorcycle and died.

[–]saltlets 3 points4 points ago

I'm also on the Internet and I can confirm this story is 100% true.

[–]saltlets 2 points3 points ago

I buy lottery tickets now and then. I don't expect to ever win anything, but I know that someone is going to win, and I'm as likely to be that someone as anyone else.

Lottery tickets are cheap. I'm not hurting my financial situation by spending about 20 bucks a year on them. The odds of winning are infinitesimal, but if you never buy a ticket, they're zero.

[–]MossOnARoc 2 points3 points ago

So, what you're saying is, there's a chance.... I really want to win...

[–]appliedphilosophy 0 points1 point ago

Like there being a chance about the existence of God. Man, Pascal's wager is all over the place* ;-)

*except that, in these and other cases, the expected value of these choices is negative even though the extreme cases provide huge payoffs

[–]bangerco84 2 points3 points ago

do I have to be the guy who points out that is wrong

[–]MrMudcat 1 point2 points ago

Do you have a reason for saying that, or do you just not believe it? It is probably not true if you count the lesser prizes of winning, but somebody else already did the math to show that the odds of dying in a car crash on the way there are greater than winning the jackpot.

[–]bangerco84 0 points1 point ago

because the fun fact says "the chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets" this statement requires you to be in danger of dying i think they said 1/175,000,000, you are going to get lottery tickets,1/250 buy lotto tickets at any given time there for your chances are 1/43,750,000,000 chances of dying on your way to get your lotto tickets.:not including tickets is plural so its also less likly you are buying more than one

[–]tkdude55 2 points3 points ago

Get rich or die trying.

[–]Andy284 2 points3 points ago

What if I buy them online?

[–]abledanger 2 points3 points ago

Is that even an option?

[–]Nishido 0 points1 point ago

It is in the UK.

[–]trylleklovn 1 point2 points ago

Your move statistics!

[–]PunTasTick 0 points1 point ago

Shouldn't this imply that there are more people who have died on the way to get lottery tickets than the number of people who won? I feel like this wouldn't be true. But that's just my feeling.

[–]ReturningTarzan 2 points3 points ago

If it takes you 15 minutes to get the lottery ticket, your risk of dying in that interval would be about 1 in 2 million. Of course that's a grossly oversimplified statistic that doesn't account for things like age, but there is a sense in which you're more likely to die on your way to collect your tickets than to win the lottery.

That doesn't mean staying home is any less risky, though.

[–]appliedphilosophy 0 points1 point ago

Statistically, I think it is way less risky.

[–]ReturningTarzan 0 points1 point ago

Not with regards to the oversimplified death statistic, though. If you look at the relative risk, i.e. how likely you are to die because you went to get the lottery ticket, it'll probably be something on the order of 1 in 500 million.

[–]chris8788 2 points3 points ago

Maybe the lottery is killing off its winners so they don't have to pay them. The plot thickens

[–]eyabs 1 point2 points ago

My thoughts exactly.

[–]digivolve_already 0 points1 point ago

wheeeeeeeeee

[–]mekranil -1 points0 points ago

This should be printed on every ticket

[–]kestert 0 points1 point ago

For my local lottery it would cost $44million to buy every possible combination. So if the jackpot gets sufficiently above $44million then it would become a pretty good buy.

[–]ReturningTarzan 1 point2 points ago

As long as no one else gets the same idea.

[–]kestert -1 points0 points ago

That's true. You have to factor in the odds of more than one person winning and splitting the prize.

[–]Pravusmentis 2 points3 points ago

It would suck to only have $3,999,999 and someone else wins

[–]dst87 1 point2 points ago

Ha! I always buy my lottery tickets online! I've beaten the system!

[–]glaubengloben 0 points1 point ago

Well if you died, that would really suck.

[–]chattyWw 0 points1 point ago

I think this is only true in America. We only have 45cnr6 where I live.

[–]FurQueue 1 point2 points ago

I play online, check and mate.

[–]schkmenebene -1 points0 points ago

pretty silly fact.... its only more likely due to statistics.... if just one person ever in history died on his way to get his lottery winnings.... thats more then the odds of winning right there, because of how few who actually win.

[–]Synergythepariah 0 points1 point ago

There's something wrong with your camera.

[–]timothyrds 0 points1 point ago

It is if it prevents you from buying a lottery ticket.

Source: /r/frugal

[–]jxuereb 0 points1 point ago

How many lottery tickets do you have to have for the chances, that one of them will win, are equal to that of dying on the way to get them?

[–]Zhyl -1 points0 points ago

And your odds of winning are pretty much the same regardless of whether you buy a ticket or not!

[–]NumpteyMan 0 points1 point ago

Do it online

[–]Black_Apalachi 0 points1 point ago

What if I play online through an automated subscription?

Checkmate atheists; infinite money.

[–]Crapulam 0 points1 point ago

Joke's on the mailman, I receive my lottery tickets by mail!

[–]odonim 0 points1 point ago

This is bullshit. How can the chances be higher of two seperate things happening than just one of the two.

[–]dodin90 0 points1 point ago

Like so: I am more likely to both brush my teeth and put on shoes tomorrow than I am to be hit by lightning.

Solved.

You're thinking of something they try to teach you in first year statistics, which, judging by comments such as yours (there are several in this thread, not just yours), they do not teach well. That is, it is more likely for one extremely unlikely thing to occur than for one really likely thing to occur as well as the extremely unlikely thing.

The classic example is something like: Susan loves writing and hates maths. Is Susan more likely to be an accountant, or an accountant who writes in her free time? The correct answer is the former, but it seems to be natural for people to assume the latter at first. For reasons which should be obvious, given my third paragraph, and which you were told when you last took a class dealing with probability.

As the probability of dying on your way to collect a lottery ticket is completely unaffected by whether that ticket is a winning ticket, the chances of the 'two separate things' (driving to buy a lottery ticket, and dying on the way) both occurring, while low, are still higher than the chances of winning the lottery. Depending, of course, on your location, mode of transport, the specific odds of that lottery, and so on.

[–]TheMediumPanda 0 points1 point ago

And hardly surprising.

[–]morningelwood 0 points1 point ago

Fun fact:

The odds of seeing something that's not fun at all on /r/funny are greater than the odds of winning a lottery.

[–]kenetha65 -1 points0 points ago

The chances of YOUR dying . . .

[–]Huh_no -1 points0 points ago

So if you stand there buying the tickets you are already a winner!!

[–]Bobby765 0 points1 point ago

Well no lottery tickets for me

[–]CakeaMan 0 points1 point ago

Btw in sweden it's illegal for a lottery to have less than 25% chance to win. Unless it's not luck based.

[–]Sentient_Waffle 0 points1 point ago

I only play the lottery online.

Check-mate fun fact!

[–]TishraDR 0 points1 point ago

So you mean there's a chance?

[–]Aedan91 0 points1 point ago

Neither is this.

[–]jimstr 0 points1 point ago

What are the chances of both happening?

[–]dumdane 0 points1 point ago

TIL buy your lottery ticket online!

[–]Kauaian11 0 points1 point ago

sad fact :(

[–]akallio9000 0 points1 point ago

People win $5 in scratch offs quite often.

[–]lil_buddha 0 points1 point ago

It may not be fun, but by golly is it factual.

[–]iNKu 0 points1 point ago

Why? Is someone gonna kill me after I win?

[–]worldalpha_com 0 points1 point ago

More people depending on these for their retirement should know this!

[–]JuanRepublic 0 points1 point ago

Get rich or die trying

[–]asdlkf 0 points1 point ago

this "fun fact" is inaccurate.

It was originally calculated with the math that you have to drive > 6 miles to get your ticket at 60 miles per hour.

The result is that "based on X hours of driving for all drivers in the united states, and Y fatalities per year from road collisions, you end up with Y/X fatalities per man-hour of driving. If you spend more than 12 minutes driving round-trip to get your ticket, your odds of dying in a car crash are higher than your odds of winning".

[–]Boots2Asses 0 points1 point ago

Oh no

[–]MrMudcat -1 points0 points ago

The lottery is just a tax on people who don't understand statistics.

[–]flysonic10 0 points1 point ago

Not if you buy enough of them!

[–]irrevrev 0 points1 point ago

The grammar in this is atrocious. It should read: "The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery ticket are greater than your chances of winning."

[–]hypnoderp 0 points1 point ago

The chances is what?

[–]SoundOfDrums 0 points1 point ago

Great, so if I survive to get the tickets, I'll win! That's how it works...right?

[–]Cptcongo 0 points1 point ago

The risk, not chance.......

[–]ksmash18 0 points1 point ago

PLANO WEST

[–]TheConstable 0 points1 point ago

You have an iPhone 4. Boom. Psychic.

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[–]TheConstable 1 point2 points ago

Speaking as someone with an iPhone 4, yes it does.

[–]SleepyTurtle 1 point2 points ago

I used to tell this to customers when I worked at a gas station. The best part was when I would end the conversation with "good luck!"

[–]RedManDancing -2 points-1 points ago

Depends on your perspective.

[–]boona 0 points1 point ago

Ha, it's like the argument against voting.

[–]Kilgore_troutsniffer 0 points1 point ago

Ever notice how "fun facts" are usually neither fun, nor facts?

[–]diemockingbirddie 0 points1 point ago

So you think it isn't true?

[–]Kilgore_troutsniffer 0 points1 point ago

It sounds likely but I doubt there is much hard data on the amount of people who die on the way to buy a lottery ticket per year.

[–]diemockingbirddie 0 points1 point ago

That is not how you would figure that. It's easy enough to figure out what a person's chances are of dying in a motor vehicle accident each time they go driving, taking into account the length of the drive and the geographic location. These stats would apply to anyone going for a ride for "such and such distance, at such and such speed, in such and suck neighborhood." What they are planning to do on the drive is irrelevant.

[–]DiarrheaMonkey- 0 points1 point ago

I actually pointed out nearly the same thing to my mom when I was 12. I had a mole on my ear which was about 1 in 1,000,000 of being malignant. The odds of us both dying on the way there were about 100 times greater.

[–]appliedphilosophy 0 points1 point ago

I find it unilkely that each mole only represents 1 micromort. Sources? :)

[–]DiarrheaMonkey- 0 points1 point ago

Well, given that it was a non-cellular blue nevus, far under 1 cm in diameter and the round trip was well over 10 miles through city traffic, I think 10 times is the minimum multiple for the likelihood of a fatality, and while I'm not going to spend tons of time correlating the relative mortality rates, 100 times does not seem unreasonable. Still an unwarranted risk and a waste of a couple hundred bucks.

[–]appliedphilosophy 0 points1 point ago

Sound good to me :) Yes, now feel the pain of the oportunity cost of those couple hundred bucks :(

[–]DiarrheaMonkey- 0 points1 point ago

Given that, as I stated, I was far more likely to die on the way there (and my mother with me), that couple hundred bucks was all opportunity cost and negative benefit, so my point remains.

[–]kleptophobiac 0 points1 point ago

I always say the chances of winning the big prize are just about the same whether you buy a ticket or not.

[–]diemockingbirddie 5 points6 points ago

Any number is infinitely higher than 0.

[–]Vapopo 0 points1 point ago

Yeah, even the number of the chance, that you win the jackpot through some strange confusion, even though you didn't participate. or through some relative that died, won it and is now handing it to you. ;)

[–]diemockingbirddie 0 points1 point ago

Does that happen nearly as much as people just winning it for having the right ticket?

[–]chaffel3 -2 points-1 points ago

False, any improbably chance that is part of a sequence is less likely than any of the events involved. Fun facts are false facts.

[–]dodin90 6 points7 points ago

I'm not sure if I'm interpreting this right (you seem to have a problem with your sentence not making sense), but as far as I can tell you are wrong, or at least the argument you have presented is irrelevant to the scenario.

If the fun fact said something along the lines of "You are more likely to die on your way to buy the winning ticket than you are to win the lottery, then your argument (if it is indeed the argument I think it is) would make sense, because the chances of dying on the way to collect the winning ticket (as opposed to any old ticket) will of course be the probability of purchasing the winning ticket multiplied by the chances of dying on the way there.

The fun fact, however, does not say that. It's referring to your chances of dying on the way to collect any ticket, so the probability of winning the lottery isn't factored into it until you make the comparison.

It's still a moderately dodgy stat, as it refers solely to chances of winning the jackpot (not the more minor wins) and is dependent on which lottery you are entering, which country you are in, your mode of transport, distance from the store, and so on.

If you meant something else, do tell. Like I said, your comment is a little unclear.

[–]chaffel3 1 point2 points ago

Woops I misread it, props to you.

[–]greenfan033 0 points1 point ago

Well when you make it home safely you know it is your lucky day!

[–]Novensu -2 points-1 points ago

I read today that the odds of winning any state lottery is 18,000.000 - 1.

The odds of getting struck by lightning? 2,650,000 -1

[–]Beezle 5 points6 points ago

Good thing that's a decimal point, I'd rather win the lotto than get struck by lightning so its nice to see the odds in my favor.

[–]i_was_blacked_out 0 points1 point ago

So you are saying if I die while on my way to get a lottery ticket... I am almost guaranteed to win? I will buy several ticket in that case!

[–]fluxaxion 0 points1 point ago

Glad I'm a zombie...

[–]TheFr1nk -3 points-2 points ago

How can the chances be greater if you have to have won the lottery in the first place. :P

[–]chipandcheetoh -4 points-3 points ago

Why is this on r/funny?????

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