How lucky are you

Well... remember how amazing numbers are. I remember reading something about homoeopathy, and how dilute some of their "medicines" are. One part in a sphere of water larger than the earth's orbit around the sun. And you get to that 1 in whatever by just diluting something often enough.... numbers can go really daft.
 
Just by goggling you can see how unlucky people get and how lucky others are. It happens.

In simple terms wouldn't being a passenger on a plane that goes down makes one unlucky, as the probability a plain going down is certainly highly improbable. Googling "unlucky people" brings up some fascinating stories also.
 
I am both very lucky and very unlucky.......given the situations that I have survived in one way or the other I am very lucky....to actually have been in those situations to begin with, I was very unlucky.
 
Depends how you look at the topic itself, personally I feel very lucky to have what I want in like e.g. a home and food etc, but feel for the poorer ppl such as the many millions in Africa who are starving to death because of the lack of food supplied to them.
 
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the thing is, the outcome of future (random) events is not correlated with the persons previous "luck". The result is that we can say "I've been very unlucky" but we can't say "I'm a very unlucky person" because that implies that we will be unlucky in the future, which is something we can't know.

It's like if you flip 10 coins and get 10 tails. The eleventh coin still has a 50% chance of being heads.
 
Limenote said:
do you not feel lucky that your not more unlucky? I mean worse things could happen to you right?
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Well, no as normally you'd expect evening out ie not lucky or unlucky. Seen as expactancy is normal ie not lucky or unlucky everything below is unlucky everything above is lucky.

If take 1) very unlucky 2) unlucky 3) normal
Then going from unlucky to very unlucky is going against the odds and is considered unlucky, while going from very unlucky to unlucky is simply normality as expected.
 
but its relative to your expectation for outcome, I mean if your talking about gambling there's a clear quantifiable outcome but saying your an unlucky person in life speaks more to your expectations then it does tangible facts, you could say your lucky to not get hit by a bus on the way to work everyday for example, does this make you a lucky person in life?
 
Limenote said:
but its relative to your expectation for outcome, I mean if your talking about gambling there's a clear quantifiable outcome but saying your an unlucky person in life speaks more to your expectations then it does tangible facts, you could say your lucky to not get hit by a bus on the way to work everyday for example, does this make you a lucky person in life?
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I'd have to agree. It's perspective, surely? If I won $10,000 on the Lottery I'd be pleased but not consider myself to be lucky. To someone without a job or perhaps without a home, they'd consider themselves extremely lucky.

A poor analogy but you know what I mean.
 
There are some people that do seem to be "lucky" for sure, I have a friend who always seems to be in the right place at the right time, a bona fide "spawny get"! :)

I enter tonnes of competitions but I've never won anything, on the flip side my mate's sister has won iPads, laptops, holidays and all sorts despite not being a competition nut. I never gamble anymore because I know I'm wasting my time. :)

Luck just corresponds to the distribution of random events I suppose. If you're outside the bell curve either way then you are "lucky" or "unlucky" IMO.
 
Nerusy said:
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?
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10 times doesn't seem that excessive tbh. I used to go to the casino every weekend, you would be surprised how often you get large runs of the same colour popping up in roulette. omg its been red 15 times in a row! it must be black next time.... :p

I tend to look on negative outcomes as a bad patch rather than thinking about luck. Also its very easy for major outcomes to have a much greater impact to your perception. I would consider a period not too long ago where I went through a bad patch, but in reality there may have been many small positive outcomes that I disregarded due to the impact of some major issues (parent death being one).

As has been said already, having been unlucky in the past in no way determines how life will continue. I also believe if you look for the negative you will likely find it ;)
 
dirtychinchilla said:
It's all in the mind. I refer you to this programme.
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Please look at that link dude. It's a Derren Brown show that demonstrates how luck is generated by your own mind. I am generally lucky, but that's because I actively make opportunities for myself which I'll ascribe to luck, and because I would always rather consider the positive outcome for events.
 
dirtychinchilla said:
Please look at that link dude. It's a Derren Brown show that demonstrates how luck is generated by your own mind. I am generally lucky, but that's because I actively make opportunities for myself which I'll ascribe to luck, and because I would always rather consider the positive outcome for events.
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yeah, but you are kidding yourself and will eventually come unstuck.
 
[FnG]magnolia;21792440 said:
I'd have to agree. It's perspective, surely? If I won $10,000 on the Lottery I'd be pleased but not consider myself to be lucky. To someone without a job or perhaps without a home, they'd consider themselves extremely lucky.

A poor analogy but you know what I mean.
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To me lucky doesn't mean winning 10K on the lottery. It means winning 50 quid one week, 1000 the next, a tenner, 50 quid etc... a series of wins. That would be a "lucky person". Of course winning 10K would mean you were lucky at that point in time.
 
Nerusy said:
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
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If you had picked 1 every time you (most likely) wouldn't have been wrong every time. Would this make you less unlucky? No.
Everyone has good and back luck at times it's just the way it is.
 
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