Talk:Van den Berg–Kesten inequality

A fact from Van den Berg–Kesten inequality appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 January 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the BK inequality was used to identify implausibly lucky Florida Lottery winners, whose involvement in illegal activities was later confirmed by investigations?

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The result was: promoted by Aoidh (talk) 01:39, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the BK inequality was used to identify "implausibly lucky" Florida Lottery winners, whose involvement in illegal activities was later confirmed by investigations? Source: "The analysis relies on an extension of the van den Berg–Kesten-Reimer inequality [...], and on [...]. The findings suggest that many of the frequent winners of the Florida Lottery could be identified as "implausibly lucky". A subsequent criminal investigation confirmed that they were indeed behaving illegally." MR 3383910 (the review of the article [1])
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- Comment: QPQ exempted (my 2nd DYK nom).

Created by HTinC23 (talk). Self-nominated at 18:34, 19 December 2022 (UTC).[reply]

I can't say I can access or understand all the sources, but it all seems to check out. New and long enough, hook is cool and cited in the article (possibly the only comprehensible part to a math illiterate like me), no evidence of copyvio (outstanding 0% Earwig score!), QPQ not necessary. Cheers! KINGofLETTUCE 👑 🥬 20:16, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]