How did the toast land?
Why do you think the person said “I knew it”?
What happened to the person in the introduction?
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
When do we feel that bad luck affects us?
What does this pattern of bad things happening at the wrong time feel like?
a law of nature
at the worst possible time
Who came up with Murphy’s law?
Who first used the term “Murphy’s Law?”
What does “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong” mean?
How did Murphy come up with the law?
What did Murphy think people would always do if there are two ways to do something?
Edward Murphy, an engineer in the U.S. Air Force
It means that any potential problem has a high likelihood of actually happening.
(whichever of the two results in disaster)
one of Murphy’s coworkers during a press conference
(While testing equipment one day, he noticed that all of the sensors recording the test results were connected in the wrong way.)
What do the two images represent?
What is probability?
How is the second image related to events in our lives?
What is the likely truth about Murphy’s Law?
(that we voluntarily interpret things in a negative way)
(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)