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THE BAD LUCK THEORY
You invite your friends over the watch an NBA basketball playoff game on TV, there are plenty of sodas in the refrigerator, the popcorn is popping, and you are all set to watchthe big game. You turn on the set, and all you get is a fuzzy image on the screen. Is this plain bad luck or is it Murphy´s law states:”If anything can go wrong, it will”.
Similar situations occur allthe time. When you´re in a hurry to open the door and you try several keys on the key ring, the last one you try is usually the one that works. When you get into a line at the supermarket, you findyou´ve chosen the slowest one, and it just doesn´t move. Bad luck or coincidence? According to British physicist Robert Mathews, it´s neither one nor the other. He explains that our selective memorytends to remember the bad episode more readily than the things that usually work out, and the law of probability is more against us than in our favor. For example, in the supermarket with fivecashiers, the chance´s of getting a fast lane are 20 percent, and 80 percent or a slow lane.
Now here´s a tricky question for Dr. Mathews, it´s a known fact that cats always fall on their four legs. Whathappens if you tie a piece of buttered toast on a cat´s back and drop them from a balcony? Will the cat land on all fours, or will the toast land on the buttered side? I Sincerely hope the BBC doesn´ttry this experiment .
Just remember that you cannot blame Murphy´s law for everything that goes wrong. If the hot water runs out while you´re having a shower, it´s probably because the burnerneeds to be fixed. If your car breaks down on the way to a job interview, it´s probably because you didn´t have the vehicle serviced or repaired.
LA TEORÍA DE LA MALA SUERTE
Se invita a tus amigos através de un reloj de baloncesto de la NBA partido de playoffs en la televisión, hay un montón de refrescos en el refrigerador, las palomitas de maíz está surgiendo, y que está todo listo para ver el...