Poll of the Day > Today's poll results (Luck)

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Do people actually believe luck is an identifiable force in the world and not just obtaining a favorable outcome due to the manipulation of multiple variables, seen or unseen?

Like if you get the last copy of a new game at a store (if you still buy phys copies without pre-ordering), you attribute you obtaining it to luck, some sort of invisible force that either acts on you or your enviroment? You don't think that the variables pertaining to that situation (people coming to that store to buy the game, amount of copies, time which you arrived) just happened to be favorable to you by random chance?

Because IF you picked anything but the last option, you are saying luck is some sort of supernatural force that governs events in our lives. To me that is ridiculous. I can't be the only one here

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Luck is certainly something that some people seem to have more than others, which gives it the impression as being more than just a variable. And, just like wealth, good luck doesn't mean anything without people with bad luck. When an extremely unlikely thing happens, if it's good clearly the person was lucky vs it being bad where the person was unlucky.
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The term "luck" is just the name given to good things and bad things out of your control. It's not controlled by anything, but it makes sense that some people would statistically have better luck than others. Somewhere out there is the luckiest man in the world. He finds a five dollar bill on a regular basis. He gets two candy bars from the vending machine. His Xbox 360 never got the rrod. There is another guy that lost five bucks, got his candy bar stuck in the vending machine, and has had three Xboxs that have had the rrod.