Ivan Seeking said:
I need to tell this to my mother. She always goes on and on about the lottery.This statistic means that for every 1 person who wins the lottery, there are 5 people who die in accidents.
This statistic highlights the fact that the odds of winning the lottery are extremely low, while the chances of being involved in a fatal accident are much higher.
This statistic was most likely calculated by comparing the number of lottery winners to the number of people who have died in accidents in a specific time period.
This statistic may be accurate based on the data used to calculate it, but it is important to keep in mind that statistics can be manipulated and may not always tell the full story.
Other factors that should be considered include the type of accidents being compared (e.g. car accidents vs. natural disasters), the population size, and the time period in which the data was collected.