What are the chances of this seriously?

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Reply 20

Lamps08

Original post by damidude

I get the exact same thing.
Dont mind these jealous/ignorant people

Is there a name for this condition?

Reply 21

Lamps08

Original post by Crazy Paving

If you're such a lucky person, why are you spending your evening sitting on here? Why have you not made millions and are not out banging loads of people?

The thing is I am also really unlucky at times too, and I haven't really utilised my predictions yet.I'm usually really unlucky when I go against my predictions though for one reason or another. It's not like I am constantly thinking of things though. They are just impulse thoughts really. I'm going to start recording things down so I can see if there is really anything in it.

Reply 22

cool_beans1993

yh sometimes i get it to but its a little different like i can sense when something bads gonna happen like if im sneaking out or something i can tell the day when im gonna b caught or if im not ....its weird but ive never been in trouble cas im always prepared :P

Reply 23

Crazy Paving

Original post by Lamps08

So you just need to work on your confidence. :smile:

Reply 24

Lamps08

Original post by cool_beans1993

lol- we cud make a good team

Reply 25

Lamps08

All I'm saying is that ALOT of very unlikely things seem to happen in my life. I'm not even really saying I caused them or predicted them, but I definately think there is some sort of psychological aspect involved or something dictating these events, and that it's not just random events. Got any milk?

Reply 26

Lamps08

I ran out of milk, and I'm still thirsty....

Reply 27

damidude

Original post by Lamps08

Is there a name for this condition?

No, but im guessing its something related to ESP

Reply 28

Blueflare

Oh for the love of God, you are not psychic. You just happen to have had a few lucky guesses now and then. I bet there are several other times you have had these random thoughts, but they haven't turned out to be true. Hence, you have forgotten. You remember the correct ones, and this gives you an inaccurate idea of how often you are correct. Just like everyone else, in reality, you are not correct much more than the mathematical average of success in random guessing.

Reply 29

tillycat

are you out of misfts by any chance??

Reply 30

sixthformer

Original post by supernova92

I'm sure you have more than enough of your own milk :wink:

by milk did you mean david seamen

Reply 31

Lamps08

Original post by Blueflare

Okay but I don't think of loads of very specific scenario's to get a good enough average. That's why I would like to know the chances of the milk incident happening, so say if something equally unlikely happens within say the next 2 weeks, I could safely say it is not random.

(edited 13 years ago)

Reply 32

cool_beans1993

Original post by Lamps08

lol- we cud make a good team

lol yes

except i dont think im that lucky im only lucky when it comes to me doing something behind my parents back not generally :P

Reply 33

Blueflare

Original post by Lamps08

No, you could not safely say it's not random. You are looking for patterns which are not there.

Okay, so it is unlikely that you could accurately estimate the amount of milk in the bottle. However, it is infinitely more likely that you accurately estimated the amount of milk than the bottle than that you are psychic.

Reply 34

Lust of a Gardener

And on other occasions you get it wrong.

But you wouldn't remember those occasions as they're not significant.

The wonder of probability and how the human mind interprets it.