6 Bizarre Statistics That Prove Math Is Black Magic

Probability rules our entire lives, but our brains absolutely suck at calculating it. The gambling industry thrives off of this fact — tell someone they only have a 1-100,000,000 chance of winning the lottery, and they’ll say, “somebody’s got to win!” We can’t blame them — there are all sorts of ways that probability works like freaking black magic. Just try to wrap your mind around the fact that …