Brazil’s New Year’s Eve lottery was a statistical aberration

Jan 08, 2018 9:57 2 min read (Updated: Jan 08, 2018 11:53)

Brazil’s New Year’s Eve lottery was a statistical aberration — Brazil’s Mega-Sena lottery. Photo: Rafael Neddermeyer/FP

Every December 31, Caixa, the public bank that monopolizes Brazil’s lottery, stages its grandest draw. Known to Brazilians as “Mega da virada”, or the ‘Big New Year’s Eve Lotto,’ it awards prizes that amount to 46 percent of Caixa’s yearly lottery revenues. In 2017, the grand prize was 306 million...

Brazil’s New Year’s Eve lottery was a statistical aberration

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