Lottery DATA Lab

One thing AI taught me about DATA is it isn't due until a tipping point, and even then, could never come up.

I had my own confirmation bias, having tracked the OH lottery for over a decade, I would scour the charts looking for what I thought was an IT'S DUE number, and spent a lot of money thinking cold numbers had to come up. Over a decade, sure they do, over a month, even a year...may not. 

What the DATA analysis did tell us, a hot number, those picked 4 times in a month, is actually more likely to come up again before the cold due number.  I had a hard time to overcome my bias on this idea, it feels counter intuitive. 

And I wish I could say I follow the data, but take this evenings Pick 4 in OH, 8338 where both 33 and 88 have come up four times this month as 11 was due, Guess which I played. Yeppers, the losing 11. 

Knowing what data tells you you should do, and actually doing gets lost in the bias we all have around. Well, now I'm going to double down on 11 even though 00 has also been drawn 4 times in July so far. 

Having learned my lesson this evening, 0011 will be on my cards with several 11xx and 00xx too. Data does say that once a double digit in this game hits 5 times, it may still hit yet again this month. 

But my gut says 11, and I now know better than to listen to it...but I'm still playing in spite of myself. Such is the strength of our own biases.