This week’s Mega Millions $1.5 billion jackpot,the moment-largest lottery prize in the history of the world, brought the lottery into the national consciousness with levels of hysteria rarely seen. The lottery is a psychological game just as much as a probabilistic one, and nearly half of American adults will play the lottery each year,for myriad (a very large number) reasons as diverse as the population itself. Yet according to Math With Bad Drawings author Ben Orlin on Vox, these players will generally tumble into one of 10 categories.
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Source: inquisitr.com