I think I might like stat perspectives as much as storms. Ok not that much. These are ways to look at the powerball odds I came up with so far. I'd basically look at my photos and then come up with ways to do the odds. The math isn't complicated at all. Just finding a few ways to look at 1 in 292 million. I hate the "hit by lightning" or "killed by tornado" or meteor ones. Even as a storm chaser these don't give me much perspective.

It helps massively to use something you are visually fairly familiar with. It also helps to end up with a couple "piles" to the stats. Your brain can sort of see the vastness of something then get wowed by the "stacks" also needed to illustrate it. Really the only way to try and visualize the crazy that is 292 million.

There's a real reason the pot is getting crazy big now. They are making it pretty stupid. In the 90s when it started you had 45 numbers the 5 were drawn from. Your odds were 1 in 54 million. They now have 69 numbers to draw those from, resulting in the 1 in 292 million. Guess what it was January 2014? 59 numbers. They did a 10 number jump to really make it hard, because it wasn't good enough. Only a year ago the odds were 1 in 175 million. By adding 10 numbers they made it almost twice as hard again.

I just like looking at it visually. I've been out there buying tickets myself. Even after realizing what I've now realized for perspective below. I'm a may as well'r too. 1 or 2 tickets. But my few times back at it now, it just feels like they've about killed it. So hard to get one number to feel any hope(even if super false hope). I think the worst thing for me is tying to look at the less than perfect winners involved. Those lesser amounts. If you get immensely lucky and hit 4 numbers, 1 in 36,000 odds, you get $100 for you time. I'd rather hit zero numbers than 4. Knowing I got that crazy lucky but only get $100 would be overly annoying I imagine.