Why do you think the person said “I knew it”?
How did the toast land?
What happened to the person in the introduction?
face down
because he or she is usually unlucky and was expecting the worst possible scenario
their toast slipped from their hand and fell on the floor
What does this pattern of bad things happening at the wrong time feel like?
When do we feel that bad luck affects us?
at the worst possible time
a law of nature
Who came up with Murphy’s law?
What did Murphy think people would always do if there are two ways to do something?
What does “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong” mean?
Who first used the term “Murphy’s Law?”
How did Murphy come up with the law?
Edward Murphy, an engineer in the U.S. Air Force
(While testing equipment one day, he noticed that all of the sensors recording the test results were connected in the wrong way.)
It means that any potential problem has a high likelihood of actually happening.
(whichever of the two results in disaster)
one of Murphy’s coworkers during a press conference
What do the two images represent?
What is probability?
What is the likely truth about Murphy’s Law?
How is the second image related to events in our lives?
(that we voluntarily interpret things in a negative way)
(they represent events happening in our lives / probability )
(the likelihood that something will happen (rather than not happen)
(These events can’t be spaced out equally and are bound to be clustered together and look more like Image 2 than Image 1.)