> Based on anecdotal evidence from other lotteries, this number may not at all be unusual. We also need to consider the many thousands of similar lotteries drawn around the world each year, almost all of which receive no international press. While such outcomes are highly improbable for any given draw, the huge number of total lotteries means it’s actually quite likely at least one of them will produce a remarkable outcome by chance alone.
The multiple endpoints fallacy also comes into play here. Instead of multiples of 9, it could have been multiples of another number, or any group of sequential numbers, or sequential even numbers, or prime numbers, or...
The odds of a particular remarkable thing happening are very low, but the odds of some remarkable thing happening can be much higher.
> Based on anecdotal evidence from other lotteries, this number may not at all be unusual. We also need to consider the many thousands of similar lotteries drawn around the world each year, almost all of which receive no international press. While such outcomes are highly improbable for any given draw, the huge number of total lotteries means it’s actually quite likely at least one of them will produce a remarkable outcome by chance alone.
[1] https://theconversation.com/433-people-win-a-lottery-jackpot...