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Accident-proneness is the idea that some people have a greater predisposition than others to experience accidents, such as car crashes and industrial injuries. It may be used as a reason to deny any insurance on such individuals.
An erosion gully in Australia caused by rabbits, an unintended consequence of their introduction as game animals. In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences, more colloquially called knock-on effects) are outcomes of a purposeful action that are not intended or foreseen.
Breaking a mirror is said to bring seven years of bad luck [1]; A bird or flock of birds going from left to right () [citation needed]Certain numbers: The number 4.Fear of the number 4 is known as tetraphobia; in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, the number sounds like the word for "death".
Luck in games involving chance is defined as the change in a player's equity after a random event such as a die roll or card draw. [13] Luck is positive (good luck) if the player's position is improved and negative (bad luck) if it is worsened. A poker player who is doing well (playing successfully, winning) is said to be "running good". [14]
Scientists themselves in the 19th and 20th century acknowledged the role of fortunate luck or serendipity in discoveries. [3] Psychologist Alan A. Baumeister says a scientist must be "sagacious" (attentive and clever) to benefit from an accident. [4] Dunbar quotes Louis Pasteur's saying that "Chance favors only the prepared mind". The prepared ...
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."--Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men. Friday, March 4: "Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."
Maybe you had a brain fart, maybe you had a bad day - but who cares, we all do. Communication is the key. Im not going to hold anyone’s hand. Better luck next time. #49. Negative Talk. #50 ...
An accident is an unintended, normally unwanted event that was not directly caused by humans. [1] The term accident implies that the event may have been caused by unrecognized or unaddressed risks .