Wyoming lottery survey shows most players earn middle-class income

Comment #4

zinniagirl — Fri, 08 May 2015 13:07:46 GMT

Not true, I live in a low inome area. Most of my neighbors are on some kind of support and have Iphones, Ipads, Ipods erc. I work two jobs and use a friends computer. They spend more money on the lottery than I do. I limit my spendint to $4 a week.

Comment #3

LottoMetro — Fri, 08 May 2015 01:34:01 GMT

When I was homeless I would spend my days surfing the Internet in the public library.

Comment #2

Murgatroyd — Fri, 08 May 2015 00:17:42 GMT

Data was collected through an online survey.

This, in itself, biases the results in favor of those who have the access, time, and energy to go online for a survey. This will tend to leave the poorer players underrepresented.

Comment #1

myturn — Thu, 07 May 2015 14:00:34 GMT

It is all those middle-clsss Utahns playing the Wyoming Lottery!

LOL

Wyoming lottery survey shows most players earn middle-class income

Lottery Post — Thu, 07 May 2015 13:46:14 GMT

The majority of people who played the Wyoming Lottery during its first months of operations earned at least a middle-class income, according to an online survey commissioned by the Wyoming Lottery Corp.

Most players, meanwhile, bought their tickets at convenience stores, the study showed.

The summary of the survey is the result of one of four records requests by the Star-Tribune. Lottery officials have provided information for two of the four requests, which also seek data on employees' s... [ More ]