Matching Pairs IV LEVEL UNIT 6 RULES FOR LIFE Lesson 2 BOnline version QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS by Martha Uribe 1 How did the toast land? 2 What happened to the person in the introduction? 3 Why do you think the person said “I knew it”? because he or she is usually unlucky and was expecting the worst possible scenario their toast slipped from their hand and fell on the floor face down 1 When do we feel that bad luck affects us? 2 What does this pattern of bad things happening at the wrong time feel like? a law of nature at the worst possible time 1 What did Murphy think people would always do if there are two ways to do something? 2 Who came up with Murphy’s law? 3 What does “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong” mean? 4 How did Murphy come up with the law? 5 Who first used the term “Murphy’s Law?” Edward Murphy, an engineer in the U.S. Air Force 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.) (whichever of the two results in disaster) It means that any potential problem has a high likelihood of actually happening. 1 What do the two images represent? 2 What is probability? 3 How is the second image related to events in our lives? 4 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.) (the likelihood that something will happen (rather than not happen) (they represent events happening in our lives / probability )
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