Murphy’s rule: Are we really toys of “maximum annoyance”?

It is well known that toasting bread toast always falls on the edge of the butter, that socks disappear such as magic in the washing machine, that the second queue moves very fast than us, but also that buildings are built then the buildings are built then Are when you are made. It is already late.

This disaster landscape to a certain edward a. Murphy is then highlighted by aerospace engineer. In the late 1940s, he experienced an experience on the resistance of the human body during the recession process.

“Everything that is likely to be wrong …”

But the test fails due to poor trendy measuring devices. And to explimate Murphy: “If there are many ways to do something, and one of them leads to disaster, then someone will do so.» A law is so enlightened: everything that is likely to be wrong … goes wrong. Murphy’s law was born.

The figures that deny any deficiency of luck, maximum annoyance are not scientifically proven. This will be psychologically. The first due to the negativity bias, as the physicist Robert AJ Mathews explained in the “The Science of Murphy of Law” (scientific American, April 1997). The mission of the brain is to guarantee survival, it gives great importance to positive information (hazards, dangers, failures, failures, etc.) for positive information.

Prejudice and uncertainty, on the program

Nobody remembers that his spicy was made to fall on the grilled side. Nor does an underwear disappear when his change is not to remind the ego that it was a time when he went from the pair. Some researchers also develop in psychology confirmation bias : The person easily explains events to confirm his prehexisting beliefs. Which thus feeds its small pessimistic or paranoid side.

The law of Murphy is a philosophical proverb beyond these daily misunderstandings. He also reminds everyone that he cannot control everything. Impossible is never uncertain. So it is better to be cautious, to estimate problems, predict plans. If, expecting the worst, we can expect for the best, assuming that better, we will always be able to make better.