"Lucky" lottery winner is Stanford University statistics PhD

[Andy Nguyen]

First, she won $5.4 million, then a decade later, she won $2 million, then two years later $3 million and finally, in the spring of 2008, she hit a $10 million jackpot.
The odds of this has been calculated at one in eighteen septillion and luck like this could only come once every quadrillion years.

Ms Ginther is a former math professor with a PhD from Stanford University specialising in statistics.

A professor at the Institute for the Study of Gambling & Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada, Reno, told Mr Rich: 'When something this unlikely happens in a casino, you arrest ‘em first and ask questions later.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...outed-Stanford-University-statistics-PhD.html

 

[Ebot]

PHD in Stats from Stanford?? something is not right here..

 

[IlyaKEightSix]

I highly highly HIGHLY doubt a PhD in statistics from Stanford would just go "lulz, lottery tickets, lemme get lucky!"

That said...there's absolutely nothing illegal she did. She bought lottery tickets hoping to win fair and square. After all, the lottery is a system designed as a tax on the mathematically challenged. In this case, the woman figured out an algorithm and won. Good for her.