How lucky are you

Nerusy

Nerusy

Nerusy

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I have always been unlucky, I have to work very hard to overcome the odds, if I leave a small chance for something to go wrong it does go wrong.

I am incredibly unlucky with cards also, in fact people who play with me are always amazed at just how unlucky I get.

So I went to random number generator chose 2 parameters 1 and 2. 50% to be right...well I was wrong 10 times in a row, so that made me make this thread.

How lucky are you, does it affect your life, do you guys think there are people who doomed to be unlucky until death and vice verse?
 
Tricky one.

Been in some very unlucky situations that could eaisily have led to death.

Escaping with relatively minor injuries that could have been so much worse has me leaning towards being a lucky person.
 
I think I've had my fair share of good luck and bad luck. I've won a couple of hundred quid on some horses but have probably lost around about the same amount. For me so far luck has been pretty balanced. There are a few things id like to put down to bad luck but it ultimately comes down to mistakes I've made and can't really blame it on bad luck.
 
Luck doesn't exist, you just make poor choices....

Or you make your own luck....

Orrrr pray to the lady to sort out your sinning....
 
Of course there's no such thing... however it's interesting to think how the human mind assigns feelings of good or bad luck.
 
In the grand scheme of things I'm very lucky. I was born in England for a start.

Smaller things though.. hmm.

Meh.
 
But some people are extremely lucky, and some people are extremely unlucky. Regardless of the choices they make.

Even tho' it is pure coincidence, it still exists, if only as a way to describe the nature of said coincidences.
 
Well to those people who say it's all the time mind. I present you this problem.

An event with 50% of outcome is either 1 or 2. Normally the more events occur the closer the ratio of win/loss becomes 50% but then statistically there will be a very highly unlikely event that it may be 1 1 1 for a very long time. Statistically highly improbable but it can happen. Humans don't live forever so wouldn't it be likely for some people to live through their lives with odds always falling against them?
 
Nerusy said:
Well to those people who say it's all the time mind. I present you this problem.

An event with 50% of outcome is either 1 or 2. Normally the more events occur the closer the ratio of win/loss becomes 50% but then statistically there will be a very highly unlikely event that it may be 1 1 1 for a very long time. Statistically highly improbable but it can happen. Humans don't live forever so wouldn't it be likely for some people to live through their lives with odds always falling against them?
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Hmm, I think there's so many things that happen in our lives with the potential for a "lucky" or "unlucky" event to happen that finding someone who has large series of lucky or unlucky events is very unlikely.
 
The Halk said:
Hmm, I think there's so many things that happen in our lives with the potential for a "lucky" or "unlucky" event to happen that finding someone who has large series of lucky or unlucky events is very unlikely.
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Indeed, statistically people who always experience the "bad" odds must exist just as much as people on the other, "good" extreme but of course they are rare. Most of us would have average "luck" of events following their "right" distribution. Although of course some people tend to remember negatives more labeling themselves as unlucky while in actually their odds have been more or less even and vice verse.
 
The Halk said:
Hmm, I think there's so many things that happen in our lives with the potential for a "lucky" or "unlucky" event to happen that finding someone who has large series of lucky or unlucky events is very unlikely.
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Long runs of, lets call them 1's and 2's, happen all the time. Prooven science.
 
I think there's millions of events in our lives that could go either way, so statistically having someone who is slightly lucky or slightly unlucky is very common indeed. However having someone who is significantly so is very far from the bell curve.

What might be easy to mistake is a single event with a large outcome - winning the lottery, being struck by a meteor.

The interesting thing to me though is the way our minds are programmed to see patterns when none exist.
 
What is bad luck in life? What would constitute a string of 1s?

A lot of life regards damage control - if something goes all fubar, then you have to plan for that and adapt to push things forward. Dwelling and meandering is not a string of 1s.
 
shadesofgrey said:
Long runs of, lets call them 1's and 2's, happen all the time. Prooven science.
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Well, I know what you meant to say. :)

They don't happen all of the time, but they do happen.

However when you say long runs, when you think about a random event being 'lucky' or 'unlucky' then it's something that wouldn't normally happen..... so rather than a 0/1 binary state it may be a 1/1,000 chance of each event being lucky or unlucky. To see a string of those you can of course easily work out how vanishingly improbable it would become....
 
Yeah, those types of runs are the rare ones.

What amazes me tho' is that there are so many people in the world, some of them will get them!
 
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