Today's Statistics Lesson

Apparently, the winning number for Texas's Pick 3 lottery game was the same in both Thursday's and Friday's drawing. The three numbers that you pick are between 0 and 9, meaning that the winning number is just a three-digit number between 000 and 999. The fact that the winning numbers were the same on two consecutive days apparently caused some questions, to which Texas Lottery officials replied that the drawings were completely legitimate and that the chances of this happening were 1 in 1000. This is, of course, correct because each drawing is an independent event, there are 1000 possible combinations, and each combination is equally likely. The idiot morning DJ, however, chimed in to say, "Really? I would have thought that the odds are much higher, like 1 in 10,000 or something," once again proving that any moron can get a job in radio.