Relier Pairs IV LEVEL UNIT 6 RULES FOR LIFE Lesson 2 BVersion en ligne QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS par Martha Uribe 1 Why do you think the person said “I knew it”? 2 What happened to the person in the introduction? 3 How did the toast land? face down 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 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 What did Murphy think people would always do if there are two ways to do something? 3 How did Murphy come up with the law? 4 Who first used the term “Murphy’s Law?” 5 Who came up with Murphy’s law? It means that any potential problem has a high likelihood of actually happening. one of Murphy’s coworkers during a press conference (whichever of the two results in disaster) 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.) 1 What is probability? 2 How is the second image related to events in our lives? 3 What is the likely truth about Murphy’s Law? 4 What do the two images represent? (that we voluntarily interpret things in a negative way) (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.) (they represent events happening in our lives / probability )