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points by baobabKoodaa 2 days ago | 0 comments
Yes, it doubles the probability that I win the lotto. Yes, doubling a probability is significant. I'm not sure you're using the term "prior" correctly here, though.
[–] maybeOneDay 1 day ago
The "prior" is "am I going to win the lottery". It's borderline facetious to argue that buying two tickets significantly affects your probability.
[–] baobabKoodaa 1 day ago
As I said, it doubles the probability. That is an easily verifiable fact. Not sure why you are calling it facetious. I feel like you are trying to make some point about small probabilities being effectively indistinguishable from zero, but for some reason you don't want to articulate that?

Anyway, 3% is very very clearly distinguishable from 0% and so is 5%.