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You either win it or you don't.
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Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/20/gang-of-beggars-pictured-getting-out-of-romanian-registered-car-in-cambridge-6459992/
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Jesus... 2quid is not a fortune and there's always a chance to win - ridiculously small, but hey!
The lottery is a great example of people taking advantage of the common man's inability to comprehend numbers bigger than about 20. People know that the odds are massively long but most don't use that part of their brain for decision making, they use what they can picture.
The most common argument for entering the lottery (apart from, "Well, somebody has to win it."), as BigBearKris said, is that the stake is not very big and the winnings are very big, but the scale of that difference renders it more meaningless than meaningful. Compounding this is the human propensity to value money on a logarithmic line, not a linear one. People value £500,000 more than half as much as £1,000,000. This scales down to the point where £2 is "worth" significantly more than one-five-hundred-thousandth of £1,000,000.
Tell you what, I'll do it as well.
You've already checked the result? NO, no no.....wrong approach. Buy a ticket, stick it in your man-purse.....don't check the result. Carry it around for a few months (but less than 6) and then check it. That way you can enjoy the possibility of winning for several months for just the cost of a single ticket. Simples.
Schrodinger's Lottery Ticket