The author left out my favorite example: that you are mathematically more likely to be the slow line at the grocery store (or the slow lane on the highway). It’s not just bad luck!

> you actually are, on the average, in the slower lane, because slow lanes are (on average) the ones that have more vehicles in. So you are more likely to be in these lanes than in the faster moving ones which more vehicles are in.

https://leightonvw.com/2019/04/04/the-slower-lane-paradox-in...