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Here's why people believe they'll win the $750 million Powerball jackpot - even when the odds are 1 in 292 million

Oct 26, 2018, 02:23 IST

We'd rather bet on a good risk than prepare for a bad one.

The lower the odds, the more important it seems.

Even when we lose, we think we're "just short" of winning.

We've already adjusted our expectations.

We think we can "crack the code."

At a certain point, we can't conceive of the odds.

We focus on the winners, not the losers.

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