The $1B+ Powerball lottery jackpot is being covered all over the US press, with many articles quoting Jeffrey Miecznikowski, associate professor of biostatistics at the University at Buffalo, as saying that &quot;you&#x27;re 25 times more likely to become the next president of the United States than to win at Powerball&quot;.<p>But in the next four years and ten months, at most one person will be elected president, while quite a few people will win at Powerball, so it&#x27;s obvious that Jeff&#x27;s &quot;25 times&quot; claim is completely backwards (good thing for him he has tenure). The question is: how can it be that not a single news outlet is pointing out that all the others are reporting obvious nonsense?
You're 25 times more likely to be the next US president than to win at Powerball