Announcing… Mirror Mirror
Mirror Mirror on the Wall Why Do You Bring Bad Luck! By Chitraparna Sinha Mirrors, a source to see your reflections, have been in existence since 6000 BC. You will often find that any object of antiquity that we still use today often has a vast amount of history behind them. With time, people somehow forget the line between history and myth, and turn them into...
Read MoreAnnouncing… Gambler’s Fallacy
Gambler’s Fallacy – Fall for it and Lose Like Crazy By Charles L Harmon The Gambler’s fallacy is the belief that if deviations from expected behavior are observed in repeated independent trials of some random process then these deviations are likely to be evened out by opposite deviations in the future. If one is invoking this fallacy then in the future is usually...
Read MoreAnnouncing… Probabilities, Chances, Hobbies, and Luck
Probabilities, Chances, Hobbies, and Luck – A Powerful Combination for the Faithful By Charles L Harmon For most of us life is a gamble. There are so many things that are not under our control that no matter what we hope our lives turn out to be we seem powerless to force life to give us the things we desire. That’s where probabilities, chances and luck somehow creep into the...
Read MoreAnnouncing… Lady Luck
Lady Luck: The Birth of the Friendly or Fickle Friend of Every Gambler By Charles L Harmon Let’s set the stage for a new kind of mathematics yet to be discovered back in its day. We’ll call it the mathematical theory of probability or it’s also known as Lady Luck for our purposes concerning gambling. For gamblers, it seems like she has been around...
Read MoreAnnouncing.. Lucky First Born
Lucky First Born – Are you one of the healthy, wealthy and wise first born? By Charles L Harmon Back when I was young – several decades ago, I heard the saying that the first born of a family was lucky. I never thought much about it as I don’t generally believe in superstitions, but in doing research on good luck and other superstitions there it was, lucky...
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Selected Articles The English noun luck appears comparatively late, during the 1480s, from Low German (Dutch or Frisian) luk. It likely entered English as a gambling term. The context of gambling remains detectable in the word’s connotations; luck is a way of understanding a personal chance event. The word luck is so common in the English language you could easily hear it used...
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