Re: The math just doesn't make an impact on a lot of people.<br><br><br> You are absolutely correct, but I keep on trying.<br><br> A few years ago, while playing blackjack in Vegas, the person next to me kept urging me to take insurance on my blackjack. I can prove mathmatically, that insurance is a bad bet. Heck, I can show it easier than that, if it were a favorable bet to the bettor, would the house offer it? Anyway, I ran through the math, and was told "That is statistics, this is the real world."<br><br> I have a friend who was a professional backgammon player. Those guys live off of tenths of a per cent of mathmatical expectation. Our favorite joke was "What's a couple of per cent mathmatical expectation amoung friends?"