| Setting that sole example outside, I think believing in something without any analytical support may actually worsen the statistical chance of the thing happening, for if the chance of something happening is 1/X, the chance of it happening while specifically you believe in that specific thing is 1/X * 1/Y (the chance you will believe this will happen), thus giving us a lower number and a lesser probability.
May be an idea for another topic, but here it contradicts the idea that "believing" in something will affect its occurrence positively.
"If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up" - Hunter S Thompson. |