America’s Luckiest States, From Massachusetts to West Virginia
Previous 1 / 14 Next
If ever there were a day to strike out in search of a few four-leaf clovers, it’s St. Patrick’s Day.
With this quasi-Irish holiday in mind, we wanted to find where the luckiest people are. What better way to do that than with data on the ultimate game determined by luck: the lottery, in which the odds of hitting the jackpot on some games can be as small as 1 in 175 million. To compile the list, they took into account state lottery winnings (from 2010) and Publisher’s Clearing House winnings (from 2011) on a per capita basis; we also accounted for the Total Powerball winners in each state, also on a per capita basis. Population numbers come from the 2010 Census.
Read more
No comments:
Post a Comment