Matching Pairs IV LEVEL UNIT 6 RULES FOR LIFE Lesson 2 BOnline version QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS by Martha Uribe 1 What happened to the person in the introduction? 2 How did the toast land? 3 Why do you think the person said “I knew it”? face down 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 1 What does this pattern of bad things happening at the wrong time feel like? 2 When do we feel that bad luck affects us? at the worst possible time a law of nature 1 Who came up with Murphy’s law? 2 What did Murphy think people would always do if there are two ways to do something? 3 Who first used the term “Murphy’s Law?” 4 What does “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong” mean? 5 How did Murphy come up with the law? 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.) It means that any potential problem has a high likelihood of actually happening. (whichever of the two results in disaster) Edward Murphy, an engineer in the U.S. Air Force 1 What is the likely truth about Murphy’s Law? 2 How is the second image related to events in our lives? 3 What do the two images represent? 4 What is probability? (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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