Dr Ben Goldacre
What is my personal opinion in that case?
Why do you think people are superstitious?
The doctor make an experiment giving their students a lucky ball and he told them to desire that ball will function, the case, it's that this happended, So it really function?
"So far it has turned out to be a lucky ball”. For the other half, the experimenter just said “this is the ball everyone has used so far”. Each participant had 10 goes at putting on the green, trying to get a hole-in-one from a distance of 100 cm: and lo, the students playing with a “lucky ball” did significantly better than the others, with a mean score of 6.42, against 4.75 for the others."
Then tehy make this task, and see, what happended:
"Then they moved on to a second experiment. 51 students were asked to perform a motor-dexterity task, an irritating fiddly perspex game where they had to get 36 little balls into 36 little holes by tilting the box. Beforehand, they were randomly assigned to one of three groups, each hearing a different phrase just before starting. The superstition activator was “I press the thumbs for you”, a German equivalent to the English expression “I keep my fingers crossed”. The two “control” or comparison groups were interesting. One group were told “I press the watch for you”, with the idea that this implied a similar level of encouragement (I’m not so sure about that) and the other were told: “on ‘go’ you go”. As predicted, the participants who were told someone was keeping their fingers crossed for them finished the task significantly faster."
In my opinion, the thing is that the people put his mind on that so, they have like " fate" and that impulse of mind power helps you to be motivated, your mind, makes everything.
I think it's because they have to depend more from other things than form themselves, I think that's the only reason, or maybe about the family, or the fact that they have to beileve in something.
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