I saw somewhere that the probability of a sequence of say 7 consecutive numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 is lower than the sequence of 7 randomly generated digts.

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If I were to pick numbers for a lottery perhaps, would a sequence like that be a bad idea?

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All the combinations have the same chance of occurring, what changes are the human impact on the numbers, for a lottery you in general want to pick a combination that other humans haven’t chosen, so humans will often pick sequences which include 7 or the numbers 1 to 31 for birthdays. So the chances of numbers 1 to 7 happening are the same but several hundred people may have picked the same sequence so the jackpot will be smaller.