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Your numbers are wrong.

https://www.creditdonkey.com/kidnapping-statistics.html

205 kids per year are abducted by strangers in US. More people per year win some kind of significant lottery.




Your link starts off with a lie by statistics.

Also, there are 80M kids, if 205 kids per year get kidnapped that's still better odds than winning the lottery.


Depends on what specific lottery you have in mind.

And you can look at the raw incidence in various way to get various probabilities.

And even 205 in 80M is small enough so that people are unable to reason about it. Which you clearly display.




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