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Many things are supposed to be good or bad luck, but are we gaining or losing something by playing along?

Links for the Curious

A breakdown of the most superstitious demographic groups - http://therapyevanston.com/2010/10/wh...

An article extolling some of the fun that can be had in apophenia - http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/r...

An interesting study about how superstitions can actually help people focus on performance - http://soco.uni-koeln.de/files/PsychS...

Any discussion of superstition would be incomplete without a reference to Tim Minchin's poem "Storm" -    • Tim Minchin's Storm the Animated Movie  

Matthew Crist's response to THUNK - 35. Health Care Crazy Talk -    • Видео  

The report on existential risks highlighted by Samuel Stringman - http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/gcr-report.pdf