Number preferences in lotteries

We explore people’s preferences for numbers in large proprietary data sets from two different lottery games. We find that choice is far from uniform, and exhibits some familiar and some new tendencies and biases. Players favor personally meaningful and situationally available numbers, and are attrac...

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Main Authors: Tong V. Wang, Rogier J. D. Potter van Loon, Martijn J. van den Assem, Dennie van Dolder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2016-05-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/15/151103a/jdm151103a.pdf