Relier Pairs IV LEVEL UNIT 6 RULES FOR LIFE Lesson 2 BVersion en ligne QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS par Martha Uribe 1 What happened to the person in the introduction? 2 Why do you think the person said “I knew it”? 3 How did the toast land? their toast slipped from their hand and fell on the floor because he or she is usually unlucky and was expecting the worst possible scenario face down 1 What does this pattern of bad things happening at the wrong time feel like? 2 When do we feel that bad luck affects us? a law of nature at the worst possible time 1 What does “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong” mean? 2 Who came up with Murphy’s law? 3 Who first used the term “Murphy’s Law?” 4 How did Murphy come up with the law? 5 What did Murphy think people would always do if there are two ways to do something? (whichever of the two results in disaster) Edward Murphy, an engineer in the U.S. Air Force one of Murphy’s coworkers during a press conference It means that any potential problem has a high likelihood of actually happening. (While testing equipment one day, he noticed that all of the sensors recording the test results were connected in the wrong way.) 1 What is probability? 2 How is the second image related to events in our lives? 3 What do the two images represent? 4 What is the likely truth about Murphy’s Law? (the likelihood that something will happen (rather than not happen) (they represent events happening in our lives / probability ) (These events can’t be spaced out equally and are bound to be clustered together and look more like Image 2 than Image 1.) (that we voluntarily interpret things in a negative way)
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