A fairly deep question

Why is it, incidentally, if all the 3,838,380 ways of choosing six numbers out of forty are equally likely, that a lottery ticket with the numbers 2 13 17 20 29 36 is for most people much preferable to one with the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6? This is, I think, a fairly deep question.

John Allen Paulos, Innumeracy

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