Why play a losing game? Study uncovers why low-income people buy lottery tickets | Science Codex:
"'Some poor people see playing the lottery as their best opportunity for improving their financial situations, albeit wrongly so,' said the study's lead author Emily Haisley, a doctoral student in the Department of Organizational Behavior and Theory at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business. 'The hope of getting out of poverty encourages people to continue to buy tickets, even though their chances of stumbling upon a life-changing windfall are nearly impossibly slim and buying lottery tickets in fact exacerbates the very poverty that purchasers are hoping to escape.'"
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