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attacks, Train disasters, Car crashes!
Think
Lucky And You Shall Be Lucky
Statistics now prove it
Luck
is a Lady who understands all the odds.
People
on whom fortunes always smiles have a greater intuitive understanding of the laws of
probability, a study claims.
The Psychology of
Luckiness, by academics at the University of Hertfordshire, in the UK, is the
biggest survey on
phenomenon. A series of psychological tests were performed on 150 people, evenly
divided between those who believed themselves to be lucky and those who thought they were
not.
The findings
showed lucky people were more successful at calculating the odds in mathematical problems
and that women are more likely to think themselves lucky than men.
One
of the four questions asked“A hat
contains 10 red and 10 blue counters.I pull
out 10 and eight of them were red.
Am
I more likely to get red or blue the next time?”
In
total 46% of lucky people answered all questions correctly while less than a third (32%) unlucky
people got them right.
Dr.
Richard Wiseman, a psychology lecturer at the university, who complied the report, said
“Lucky people were simply better working out the odds of as situation and
understanding probability questions”
Clive Jones,
41, from North London, has been a professional gambler since 1978, when he left the
accounts department of P & OFerries. To Jones, luck and deduction of probability, which he calculates on a computer for
sporting events such as rugby and golf can trigger a winning streak.“By calculating the odds, you are taking the edge
off the casino or bookmaker and giving it to yourself.Luck is either there or it isn’t”
Dr David
Nias, a clinical psychologist at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, who made a study
of gamblers, said, “Emotionally, gamblers do believe in luck, but many will argue
that they make their own luck, calculating the odds and studying form books”
In Wiseman’s
tests, more than a third (37%) of lucky people believed that they could control their
luck. By contrast, far fewer unlucky people(5%) said they had the power to change their luck,
they also tend to be more accident prone.
Wiseman
detected a difference in mental attitude between lucky and unlucky people: the former were
found to be more optimistic, possessed greater self-esteem and were more likely to
remember good times than bad.
The study included
a 43 year old woman who fell head first into the a fire at three, was gassed at five,
toppled into a river at seven, and ran in front of a bus at nine. Despite this, she considered herself lucky to have
emerged without serious injury.
Another “lucky”
woman fled to Burma to escape Japanese soldiers, avoiding air attacks, train disaster and
car crashes, often by minutes or hours.Later,
in Britain, she was twice rescued by strangers walking past after being confronted by
rapists.
The link between
luck and the ability to calculate the odds is highlighted by Mel Eddison, 50, an
Manchester businessman.When presented
with a commercial deal, he makes his mind up in a flash.“I have an instinct for working out risk against return.I have always had it” he once said. Eddison
has also always been lucky.Success from a string
of businesses was crowned by a £2.5 million UK Lottery win in 1995 against odds of 14
million to one.
So I would imagine
that the only thing there is to learn is that, you should always follow your mind, and
select the numbers whichyou know are going
to bring you the
luck that comes to
all of us in our lives in many different
disguises.
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About The Author
Barry Sheppard writes, as a hobby, for http://www.traintraveller.com
an online site informing readers how to travel throughout the world by train.
He has written and had published 15 books, and 100's of articles on a wide range of
subjects.He runs a 121 writing course by phone and email . You can get the details of this
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