Number preferences in lotteries

Wang, Tong V.; Loon, R.J.D. Potter van; Assem, Martijn J. van den; Dolder, Dennie van

doi:10.1017/s1930297500003089

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“…From the two datasets, players seem to have a high preference for small numbers (single digits) especially 1 and 9. Various authors including Stern & Cover, (1989), Oyeleke & Otekunrin, (2014) and Wang et al (2016) reported a preference for small numbers. Also, players have a preference for numbers with repeated digits in the two datasets (11, 22, ... 88, which are above the mean for all but one case).…”

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“…It is related to the gambler's fallacy (GF) where people tend to believe that an event is less likely to occur because of its recent occurrence. Lottery players with this belief usually avoid recently drawn number combinations (Clotfelter & Cook, 1993;Suetens et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2016). A contrasting fallacy is the hot-hand fallacy (HHF) where people believe that an event is more likely to occur because of recent streaks of occurrence of that event (Suetens et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

“…In other studies, players choose situationally available numbers including current date, month of play, voucher and zip codes (Wang et al, 2016). Some players prefer numbers located on the lower end of the range of numbers available (Polin et al, 2021) while others prefer numbers located at the centre of the lottery ticket (Bar-Hillel & Zultan, 2012;Wang et al, 2016). Researches involving number preferences include the work of Ziemba et al (1986), Halpern & Devereaux (1989), Turner (2010), Gauvrit & Delahaye (2011), Wang et al (2016) and Polin et al, (2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The belief is give more to receive more so as to have spiritual and by extension, physical abundance (Origunwa, 2016). Furthermore, in a study on number and colour preferences in four countries, children selected for the study from Niger and the Republic of Congo preferred number 9 and red (Vandewiele et al, 1986;Wang et al, 2016).…”

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Number preferences in selected Nigerian lottery games

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In this paper, we examined two pairs of datasets from selected Nigerian lottery games to determine players’ number preferences. Data explorations were conducted in the first pair of datasets to identify patterns in players’ choices of lottery numbers. The question whether players preferred number combinations that are well-spread out regardless of their true theoretical probabilities was examined in the second pair. In the first pair of datasets, we find that most players have a preference for small numbers especially 1 and 9. They also prefer numbers with repeated digits and tend to avoid multiples of 7 and numbers containing 7 (except 7 and 77). The most popular numbers are 90 and 1. In the second pair of the datasets, more than 50% of the players preferred selecting well-spread out number combinations than expected by chance.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Not your lucky day: romantically and numerically special wedding date divorce risks

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Ribar

2018

J Popul Econ

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What a difference a day makes! Using data from government registries on all the weddings that occurred in the Netherlands from 1999-2013, we find that weddings that occurred on Valentine's Day, dates with the same numbers for the day, month and year like 9 September 1999 (9.9.99), and dates with numbers for the day, month, and year in an ascending sequence like 1 February 2003 (1.2.03) were both exceptionally popular and also much more likely to end in divorce compared to weddings that occurred on ordinary dates.How popular? There were nearly three times as many weddings in the Netherlands on a given Valentine's Day than on other comparable days in February, and there were six times as many weddings on a given same-number day as on a comparable ordinary day.However, the special-day marriages proved to be fragile. By what would have been their ninth anniversaries, 21 percent of Valentine's Day marriages and 19 percent of same-number-date marriages were estimated to fail, but only 16 percent of ordinary-date marriages were estimated to fail. In relative terms, Valentine's Day marriages were about one-third more likely to fail by their ninth anniversaries and same-number-date marriages, about one-quarter more likely to fail than ordinary-date marriages. We continue to find large differences in divorce risks even after we use statistical methods to account for characteristics that might affect both the choice to marry on a special date and marriage vulnerability.Although an analysis of quirky wedding dates is unusual, our results match predictions from wellknown family-relations theories of how commitments deepen in couple relationships, especially the "sliding vs. deciding" theory. From this theory, "deciding" couples choose to marry because of what they learn about each other and about their compatibility over the course of their relationships. In contrast, "sliding" couples slip into marriage because constraints to exiting the relationship, such as the costs of moving or of separating bank accounts, gradually build and make marriage seem worthwhile, even if the couple is less compatible. The timing of "deciding" couples' marriages will depend on how information about their relationships develop, while the timing of "sliding" couples' marriages may be more influenced by external events, like the opportunity to marry on a romantically or numerically special day. Consistent with this theory, we also find that special-day couples are less alike and less well-matched at the start of their marriages compared to ordinary-day couples.

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