With the Powerball jackpot now up to $1 billion, lottery fever is in the air. Despite low odds, experts explain how winning is a 'powerful fantasy.'
Lottery player and California resident Victoria Vazquez holds $280 worth of lottery tickets for her office pool. , with a cash value of more than $497 million, it's no wonder lottery fever is in the air.— right behind Powerball's world record jackpot of $1.586 billion in 2016 — as well as the fifth largest jackpot ever in U.S. lottery history, according to Powerball.
There's also what's called availability heuristic at play, in which people "make judgments about the likelihood of an event It really comes down to how hard it is for the human brain to grasp the actual low probability of winning.
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