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 How did the toast land? 3 What happened to the person in the introduction? their toast slipped from their hand and fell on the floor face down because he or she is usually unlucky and was expecting the worst possible scenario 1 When do we feel that bad luck affects us? 2 What does this pattern of bad things happening at the wrong time feel like? at the worst possible time a law of nature 1 Who first used the term “Murphy’s Law?” 2 Who came up with Murphy’s law? 3 What did Murphy think people would always do if there are two ways to do something? 4 How did Murphy come up with the law? 5 What does “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong” mean? (While testing equipment one day, he noticed that all of the sensors recording the test results were connected in the wrong way.) (whichever of the two results in disaster) Edward Murphy, an engineer in the U.S. Air Force It means that any potential problem has a high likelihood of actually happening. one of Murphy’s coworkers during a press conference 1 What do the two images represent? 2 What is probability? 3 What is the likely truth about Murphy’s Law? 4 How is the second image related to events in our lives? (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 ) (the likelihood that something will happen (rather than not happen) (that we voluntarily interpret things in a negative way)
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