It's funny that you seem to recognize the failure of your logic but don't apply it to your own argument.
If the Powerball were played multiple times every single day, and every time someone went outside they bought a ticket, your snarky attempt at legitimacy would make sense.
You clearly understand that in order for someone to be part of a statistic, they must first be part of that statistical sample. If you're going to compare every single person actively playing powerball, then you need to compare every single person being exposed to covid.
Your statistical hypothesis has to be based on similar circumstances, otherwise comparing them is less than useless.
Millions of people play powerball every week. Millions of people have been exposed to covid. Far more people have died from covid.
If you're going to start including the people who aren't exposed to covid in your statistics, then you have to start including the people who don't play powerball. You can't compare odds from a small segment of the population and use it to make a comparison to the entire population.
But please, keep telling me how I don't understand statistics.
We could further reduce the experiment, and make a more accurate comparison, by making a winning ticket "airborne" and judging the odds of victory in Powerball by proximity to said floating ticket. For obvious reasons, this is pants on fire retarded.
OH GEE, THANKS FOR POINTING THAT OUT. THAT'S MY ENTIRE POINT.
You're not comparing similar populations. PERIOD. There is no further argument to be made. You do not encounter it every time you walk outside. You do not encounter it with every breath. You do not encounter covid every time you are in a public space.
Powerball odds are based on a 100% exposure rate. Every time you purchase a ticket, you have XXX odds of winning.
You can't compare that to fucking living in a world where covid exists because you are comparing populations of people who are guaranteed to have been exposed with a population that, huh, maybe, I don't know, did that guy have it? Could have been. I guess he might have, maybe, but it's totally more likely that you will win the lottery than die from covid even though 200,000 people have died from it and just a few dozen have won powerball in the same time frame.
The entire population of the US has not been exposed to covid, and they most certainly are not exposed multiple times every time they leave their house.
You want to talk about pants-on-head retarded? Take a look at the guy making that assumption.
It's funny that you seem to recognize the failure of your logic but don't apply it to your own argument.
You clearly understand that in order for someone to be part of a statistic, they must first be part of that statistical sample. If you're going to compare every single person actively playing powerball, then you need to compare every single person being exposed to covid.
Your statistical hypothesis has to be based on similar circumstances, otherwise comparing them is less than useless.
Millions of people play powerball every week. Millions of people have been exposed to covid. Far more people have died from covid.
If you're going to start including the people who aren't exposed to covid in your statistics, then you have to start including the people who don't play powerball. You can't compare odds from a small segment of the population and use it to make a comparison to the entire population.
But please, keep telling me how I don't understand statistics.
OH GEE, THANKS FOR POINTING THAT OUT. THAT'S MY ENTIRE POINT.
You're not comparing similar populations. PERIOD. There is no further argument to be made. You do not encounter it every time you walk outside. You do not encounter it with every breath. You do not encounter covid every time you are in a public space.
Powerball odds are based on a 100% exposure rate. Every time you purchase a ticket, you have XXX odds of winning.
You can't compare that to fucking living in a world where covid exists because you are comparing populations of people who are guaranteed to have been exposed with a population that, huh, maybe, I don't know, did that guy have it? Could have been. I guess he might have, maybe, but it's totally more likely that you will win the lottery than die from covid even though 200,000 people have died from it and just a few dozen have won powerball in the same time frame.
The entire population of the US has not been exposed to covid, and they most certainly are not exposed multiple times every time they leave their house.
You want to talk about pants-on-head retarded? Take a look at the guy making that assumption.
That's because you're too dense to understand that the point you're making supports my argument, not yours.
But keep thinking that the entire population of the US is playing the covid lotto multiple times each day.