"What I meant in the second statement was you seem to get off by continuesly insisting that people who play the lottery using some sort of system suffer from a fallacy which is rooted in not having the nessary math skills or understanding. Those who do have the math skills then must suffer some
sort of psychological disorder by trying to out perform the odds.
If a person does come out ahead then they are fooling themselves thinking that they somehow had a possitive effect when it was a nothing but chance. You futher attempt to endorse your beliefs that you are correct by offering a backtest to show that the same results do indeed fall within the expected range of chance. Those who oppose this view are then made to look as though they are self delusional and hardheaded not wanting to admit they were wrong. When I say that you are wrong, I am not saying the math is wrong I am saying your motives are wrong. “
Well cry me a river, critique yourelf
Is that what you are all about? Proving someone wrong from another thread? You get
C’s and D’s in high school and then nearly ace a SAT and claim a 143IQ? Who is
self delusional? You feel that you are attacked and you make claims and
statements that are opinions. You successfully through argument derail a thread
because you wish to put the focus and recognition on yourself. Live up to your
IQ.
It does not require a 143 IQ to learn about and use a spell checker.
There are very literate people who suffer from innumeracy and that seems to be
alarming. It is not alarming to discover that some illiterate and poorly literate
people suffer even more from innumeracy. Both are learned skills and can be
mastered to the degree you push yourself. You can learn to better yourself or
you can learn to maintain yourself with excuses for poor performance.
I,
in my opinion do not believe that a systems player needs to be a mathematical genius
or literate to the nth degree, but she/he is aware of the odds and probability
to make a smart decision. Gold and Platinum members have resources here that
help develop statistical skills and insights. They are priceless. Card counting
makes one a cheat in a casino and that is because they are able to estimate the
chance of the likely hood of the next card(s) drawn. It gives them an improved advantage
to the house odds and history has shown that it works. There are members here
that beat the odds all the time.
For those who pursue that task it is their entertainment and a personal challenge. They
are more likely to not subscribe to the fate of the draw and make their own
decisions, right or wrong. Though some may buy Quick Picks they are more
inclined to buy Self Picks so they can take control of what gets played and
how. Back testing has many merits, but that is not the topic here. You are the
topic now.
Another reason some members quietly go away is that they have a working system that is
reliable to the point of great success. They only need to prove to themselves
what works for them. There is no obligation on their part to reveal HOW they do
it. They are satisfied with their own performance and have no need to have the
world pat them on the back or give them a WTG. A successful systems player is
not going to advertise because it can lead to the game being modified to
inhibit the advantage. One way to do that is to increase the odds of the chance to win. Since the early days of
Gail Howard, all the initial state lotteries have increased the odds for a
jackpot win with hardly any disclosure or hoopla. Ever wonder why?
Dyslexia is a language problem developed from poor reading skills and can be thwarted by
learning a word a day and correctly pronouncing it and spelling it. I know very
dyslexic people who learn how to manage a lazy mind and they never make excuses
for their performance because they perform quite well. They are self aware to
the point of changing their behavior and it works.
I don’t think people are drawn to LP because they need help in selecting QP’s.
They want to win and explore ways to do it, regardless of the odds. This is not
a place for the weak stomached who are dismayed by odds. They want to take
control of the chance they hold to win, by their own selection. Whether they
use Statistics, common math or some kind of lottery math with or without
software, they are advancing themselves in terms of numeracy.
The entertainment has educational value. QP’s are a no-brainer. Luck is a no brainer and is as
evasive as long odds. People are drawn to systematic methods because systematic
play can improve the chance to win, the greater the odds, the greater the challenge.
You can call it a superstition and it therefore is as valid as ‘luck’. The key
is to not be greedy and win within your means and acceptable odds. For some not
winning a jackpot is an acceptable challenge to win lesser amounts frequently.
There was nothing to indicate that superstition was a negative product of innumeracy
in the poll or leading post. There was nothing offensive. No one was obligated
to participate or leave a reply. You will find in the mystical forum the use of
numeric systems. The poll was not intended to criticize superstition,
innumeracy or illiteracy but since you started to take to task the very
definitions and manner of the poll to criticize, you got the same back at you
in spades. You are still on a quest to prove how big of a brain you have and
that shows throughout this thread. Why go away when you can have so many
enablers to stroke your brain and ego for you? Tell us more about you.
The only people who could have numerous LP ID’s are allowed to do so and I am not
one of them as I was accused of by Joey Minimus. I remember when he showed up
and I know why. Talk about the potcalling the kettle black! E tu Cuz?
IT guys & Webmasters have all kinds of ways to find if someone has more than
one ID. Some forums just list the IP address and that takes care of allot of
monkey business in forums. Of course, one’s IP address can disclose information
that only the Webmaster can have here at LP and that can prevent stalkers if
one should win big. Without the information that the Webmaster has, there is no
way one can with 100% certainty say a member has two ID’s unless they pattern
the same way in threads with the same themes, spelling, topics, structure and
etcetera including the topic of ‘Luck’.
DD