"**What is your probability of winning the New Jersey lottery twice? One in 17 trillion. Yet it happened to [[Evelyn Adams]], whom the reader might guess should feel particularly chosen by destiny**. Using the method we developed above, researchers [[Percy Diaconis]] and [[Frederick Mosteller]] estimated at 30 to 1 the probability that someone, somewhere, in a totally unspecified way, gets so lucky!" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[fooled-by-randomness]], [[birthday-paradox]], [[statistics]], [[data-analytics]], **Source** -- [[202410121132 - B - Fooled by Randomness]]