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Did you know... that the BK inequality was used to identify implausibly lucky
Florida Lottery winners, whose involvement in illegal activities was later confirmed by investigations?
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... that the BK inequality was used to identify "implausibly lucky"
Florida Lottery winners, whose involvement in illegal activities was later confirmed by investigations? Source: "The analysis relies on an extension of the van den BergâKesten-Reimer inequality [...], and on [...]. The findings suggest that many of the frequent winners of the Florida Lottery could be identified as "implausibly lucky". A subsequent criminal investigation confirmed that they were indeed behaving illegally."
MR3383910 (the review of the article
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I can't say I can access or understand all the sources, but it all seems to check out. New and long enough, hook is cool and cited in the article (possibly the only comprehensible part to a math illiterate like me), no evidence of copyvio (outstanding 0% Earwig score!), QPQ not necessary. Cheers!
KINGofLETTUCE đđ„Ź20:16, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply