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Quote by: Fonceai  @Lullaby
I think you bring up something interesting in Post #5.
The odds on a die roll are 1 in 6. If you choose 4 and I choose 5, and it lands on 4, you were as equally lucky as I was unlucky.
If you successfully guess correctly the next 99 die rolls, someone could say that are incredibly lucky, having beaten the 1 in 6^100 odds.
Or someone could just say you beat the 1 in 6 odds, 100 times.
The association with luck is derived from the consistency of beating the odds. A series of fortunate events.
Luck is just a word for the phenomenon of repeated success. I don't think it's actually some mystical force. |
True, and in actuality. Many things seen as "lucky" are statistically expected to happen.
It's shallow to think, you're a lucky person, because you rolled a '6' four times and a row. Because, statistically, that is expected to happen quite often. With the millions of dice rolls in a week, it would actually be incredibly unbelievable to NOT see someone roll a '6' four times in a row.
Luck is a superstition. Like most superstitions, it's born out of magically connecting a cause to an event.
I walked under a ladder, and later I was fired. Magically connecting these things is superstitious.
This doesn't mean luck is always superstition. It's also quite practical in describing fortunate events in one's favor. So long as you don't see luck as an aura of sorts, or an actual CAUSE of the effects.
Luck is never a CAUSE. That is superstitious. Luck is only a description.