Math for renobs

If you want to cry about entries at least show it in statistically relevant terms. That is, don't tell us you entered 500 giveaways and didn't win, that is irrelevant. If you entered 500 contests with 1/10 odds that would be amazing, more than likely though you entered 500 contests that gave you odds of 1/2500, so that fact that you didn't win makes more sense than if you had.

Here is some easy math so you can go play with yourself in the corner when you realize you have nothing special to say.

Take each contest and divide the number of entrants by the number of gifts, so a giveaway with 1000 copies of dwarfs with 13,000 entrants would be 13. Now divide the number 1 by the number you just solved for. 1/13= .07blahblahblah. This is your odds of winning, less than 8% will win this contest. If you do that for every contest and you add them, that is your cumulative odds, and no that doesn't mean when it equals 1 you should have won, we'll get to that. My cumulative has been over 2.5, so don't bitch.

If you get the inverse of the individual contest odds, 1-1/13= ~92.blahblahblah that represents the odds you will lose, if you multiply every contest since you won last, that would represent the odds that you would have lost every contest, which becomes more relevant to the topic. If you have a total probability of losing that is less than 10% then congrats that would seem relevant over 500 similar events, and still no fucks will be given.

Before any clowns start crap about statistics, this was made simple so people could go waste their time with pointless maths rather than starting even more pointless threads without maths.

*drops pen