Is "one in a million" nearly impossible?

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I was talking to my friend about something. I asked if it was impossible for me to experience this. He said, "It's not impossible of course, but it's a one in a million chance because it doesn't happen to everyone." Isn't this almost impossible? I would appreciate if you share your opinions without being offensive.
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ohshee · Accepted Answer

It depends on what you're talkin about it depends on what you want it depends on what you understand and how the world works it depends on you what are you looking for what do you want anything and everything can happen there's nothing that is not impossible I say you will get what you're looking for if you want it bad enough some things in life you have to make happen can't be shy you have to be bold make it happen if you tell us all what you want every single one of us on here send you that prayer at a certain part of the day that energy will all be focused on you and I believe you can have what you want
Or you can ask for what you want you can have anything you can ask God for it but if you ask it has to be real it has to come from your heart and you have to meet at 100% and it has to be for good

TallAnon · Accepted Answer

Depends on the frequency of the chance.
One in a million, in an entire lifetime: Still very possible, we have many millions of people.
One in a million every second: You will likely experience it at some point while you are alive.

MrOracle · Answer

It's like if you're broke and you buy a Lotto ticket as your "plan" for paying your bills. Sure, a tiny few number of people win Lotto jackpots, but the odds against that are around 4 billion to 1, so you are almost certain not only to not win the jackpot, but to lose the money you spent on the ticket as well.

I don't know what it is, but lots of women refuse to accept what's LIKELY, and always want to focus on what's POSSIBLE, even if the possibility is microscopic. Too many women make decisions assuming that they are going to be that 1 in a million who wins, rather than realizing how unlikely that is, and choosing an alternative which, while it might not be as great or as easy, has a FAR greater chance of coming to pass.

Anyway, yes, 1 in a million means it's basically impossible. To give you an example, let's say that there is a contest every day, and you enter that contest every day, and on each day, you have a 1 in a million chance of winning. ON AVERAGE, you will win once in about half the total amount of time it takes to have 1 million drawings - though this is just an average, and is certainly not any kind of guarantee. So, how long are we talking about? Well, a million days is roughly 2740 years, so if you were perfectly statistically average, it would take you about 1370 years to win. Of course, you won't live anywhere near that long, so, yeah, it's almost certainly impossible.

You'd do yourself a huge help if you focused on LIKELY outcomes rather than POSSIBLE outcomes, because 1 in a million still means something is possible, even though it's so unlikely that it almost certainly won't happen. If you focus all your energy on possibilities rather than probabilities, you will spend nearly all of your time losing and choosing the wrong paths in life. Sure, every once in a while, it can be worth taking an informed, measured risk, but that should be more of the exception than the rule, and even then, you should have some real understanding of the odds of success. A 1 in 20 chance of success is remote, but WAY better than a 1 in a million chance.

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

No it’s not impossible, it also greatly depends the time between events etc.

for example, if an aircraft crash was 1 in a million and no aircraft had crashed in 1 in 999,999 and you were about to fly…. Worry.

or say the chances of getting a lottery top prize of xx million, people win it.

example
for the UK lottery
The odds of winning the UK Lotto jackpot are 1 in 45,057,474

thats 45 million, so 1 in a million are brilliant odds

https://www.lottoland.co.uk/magazine/learn-which-game-gives-you-the-best-lotto-odds.html

The lottery with the best odds of winning a jackpot worth over £1 million is the Spanish Christmas Lottery El Gordo with odds of 1 in 100,000
The lottery with the best odds of winning a jackpot worth over £10 million is the Swedish Lottery with odds of 1 in 6,724,520
The odds of winning the UK Lotto jackpot are 1 in 45,057,474 (not available at Lottoland)
The lottery with the best chance of winning a jackpot worth over £100 million is EuroMillions with odds of 1 in 139,838,160 (not available at Lottoland)
The lottery with the best odds of winning a prize is the French Lotto with odds of 1 in 5.99
The lottery with the worst odds of winning the jackpot is SuperEnaLotto with odds of 1 in 622,614,630

Anonymous · Answer

What exactly are you referring to here? Do you mean finding a man who is "one in a million"?

The term one in a million is just a saying and not a statistical truth. I think most any woman is capable of getting a good, high value man if she herself is willing to put in the effort to be a good, high value woman.

jshm2 · Answer

Don't be silly.  One in a million means there are thousands out there.  So you being a "one in a million" with the current world population means you are one of around 7 thousand.

Anonymous · Answer

Yeah pretty much, depends what you looking for, sometimes you can increase your odds by changing things

LaFemmeFatale_1 · Answer

I am a one in a 100 million type of girl, so It’s possible.  And the reason I am 1 in a 100 million type of girl, I’ll keep it to myself. But it’s def possible.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

I don't think "One in million" is impossible cause it happens

Static_In_The_Attic · Answer

One in a million is like getting hit by lightning on a submarine & to be honest lightning can strike.

Jersey2 · Answer

I have had such situations and found that on average I was about to get it after only 500,000… 😀

KostasKouvalis · Answer

Theoretically no, but it's extremely unlikely.

clemdenim · Answer

Possible, but not probable

Smartman5 · Answer

yes, it must be impossible. what were you talking about? what you wanna do?

CloudMassacre · Answer

1/1,000,000 is low odds

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