Well, I was going to stay out of this on the simple fact that I don't care for dissention, negativity and can'ts. But, thinking that someone working with lottery numbers trying to do something their minds tell them they can do, is going to affect the learning abilities of a child, just kind of got to me. I can kind of see everyones point here thru this. It's the way the world has always been since, well, there has been people. There is always the can's and the cant's. It's just life. It's never going to change. As far as that goes. Change in that would only occur when understanding that everyone has their own ways. Their own ways of doing anything. Everything, as far as i know in this world that has been done, is a result of can's. Not one time in human history has anything been accomplished from "I can't". That I can think of anyway. It's preached to us all the time from the politicians. It's "yes we can" until they get elected. Then it's "well congress says we can't". Or the Pres. says we can't or we would. It's always been the powers that be saying the we can's until they get what they want. Then it's like they have the power, so we can't.
While we only use 10% of our brains abilites, it doesn't take a numeric genius to figure out that there is 90% there that has the capability to do just about anything. If we look at what has been accomplished with just that 10% alone. Even upping the usage to 30% of what the brain can do, produces some amazing reslults. "Can't" is, and always has been a negative. Being it's a negative, that kind of puts it well below the 10% range of usage doesn't it? I mean if you have "can" on one end of a rope and "can't" on the other, my money is on the can. Everytime.
Ever see any boxing matches where they say the other guys has no chance of "WINNING", then he does "WIN"? Or how about the times they say, "This guy can't "LOSE", then he LOSES? See the difference there? While the mentality of both has an undertone of can't, there is the final outcome of can breaking thru in the end. It never fails. LOL. Tyson was in no way going to lose to Douglas was he? Kind of sounds like your Gambler's Fallacy doesn't it? From what I've read on it it does to me. Just because something that has happend over and over again, it does not mean it will happen again the next time. I watched the side of the screen in the WIki article where they flipped the red and blue quarter over and over again. It was pretty close. But, there where times that blue was ahead by a few, then red was ahead by a few. It's those times when the one is ahead of the other that kind of defeats the whole purpose of the test doesn't it and kind of disproves the whole thing. I mean if you do flip a quarter 100 times, there will always be one, that for even a few times, comes up more than the other. It's when you decide to stop flipping the quarter that kind of decides the outcome doesn't it? If you stop on 50/50 then it's most definitely going to be 50%. If you wait on it though, it can be 70/30. Can be 20/80. Who knows? Point is, stopping at 50% is kind of a waste of time isn't it?
And probability, is a matter of what your probabilitizing. If your, probably going to always lose the lottery, your probably going to lose. If your going to try to win the lottery, while it doesn't mean you are going to win, it probably means you stand a better chance if you try. So it's pretty much in the mindset of what your probably trying to accomplish.
From what i know about the lottery and schooling kids, is that, while my 9 yr. old nephew does love to scratch off the scratch cards i sometimes buy, he has never been messing up his mind with lottery numbers. It's the way he's taught in school that messes up his math skills. And if he's still doing 1+ and 4- in the fourth grade, that's probably part of the problem with the kids being behind. It's not the teachers fault for that. It's what they've been given to teach with. I've picked him up from school and seen how the teachers still care about the kids. They still care like they did when i was in school. I've seen his homework. I've seen what they've been given to teach with. They should be way beyond +/- in the fourth grade. You wanna blame something for the kids in America being behind, you should put it where it belongs. And he's never set beside me to help work on the lottery numbers. I have in fact, used the lottery to help him with his math skills. Math that i had forgot about since i was in the 3rd grade. Back when there was only two channels on the TV. If you was lucky enough to have a TV. Back before the internet. When i was in the 3rd grade, i was already doing algebra. Scoring higher than 98% of the nations 9th graders on all subjects. That's the difference from then till now. We didn't have an X-Box or video game to keep us from actually learning. There was no internet to get on and watch YouTube videos for hours on end. And if there was I wouldn't have been on it until my parents knew my learning work was done. Get them off the TV. Get them off the internet. Get them off the video games. Get 'em off all that crap for hours on end. Set down with them and talk with them and help them learn if they aren't doing well in school. Blaming the lottery or even thinking the lottery is, can or will make a child or young person dumb or get behind is just absurd. It's a learning experience. Anything we do in life is a learning experience. And just to throw it out there, every ticket he has scratched off for me I always tell him to see how much he can win me. He has won on every single one.
I can also say that, by trying and thinking with the possibilty of can in my mind, I've seen that it can be done. It can be done with the mathematical skills of what I learned in kindergarten. Nothing more than -/+. I've seen it many, many times now. From what peoples showed on here to my own work. How many times can you go back and take the last two games of a draw and get the next numbers by simply adding/subtracting the two previous draws alone. I've seen a plenty. So i say, if you wanna help a kid learn some math, give them the numbers. Give them a PC or pad and pen. Tell them how it's never been done and the large sums of money they can attain if they can do it. And see how much they learn from the lottery. I bet you it's more than they'll learn from trying to figure out how many credits they need to get that new gun in some video game.
Well, I'm going back to my world of can now. And in a world of can's and cant's or positive and negatives, since opposites attract, if we'll simply just turn around, the energy will shoot us the other direction instead of pulling us on into it.