Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Lotteries are for people who can't do math

For a great discussion of why lotteries, including education lotteries, are probably not your "best bet" for getting rich or putting microscopes in your child's life sciences classroom go here:


Michael Dickson's Blog


In keeping with the theme of this blog, which is subject to change since my information well is drying up, I will soon post on the well-publicized, huge profits enjoyed by the oil companies.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

No, lotteries are for people who can't do math AND for people, like me, who have a preference for an infinitesimal chance at riches over one dollar, where that preference does not survive subsequent iterations.

This is a friend of Dom's who lives in Pittsburgh, if you are curious as to my identity (I prefer not to have my name all over the internet).