I'm not sure if I have mentioned this on the forum before (I have been around for a while) but this is something I came up with a while back to explain my life, of course I was very depressed at the time so I understand now that it doesn't describe MY life as a whole, but it is a useful concept anyway, for clarity of explanation I will try doing this in stages.
1) Luck can be defined as unpredictable circumstances outside the observer's control which exert influence on the course of events for the observer producing an effect which is positive, negative or neutral for the observer.
2) On a completely "average" day your moment to moment luck should be graded on a bell curve centred on neutral with extremely positive or negative luck being rare, and less extreme luck being more common, with events of neutral luck being most common (and funnily enough entirely ignored by you).
3) The actual centre of the bell curve for each day will never actually be perfectly in the middle, some days your luck will be more positive than others, and for a completely "average" life, the averages of every day of your life can also be graded on a bell curve centred on neutral luck, with extremely lucky or unlucky days being rather rare in your life, and less extreme luck being more common with most days having roughly neutral luck.
4) The actual centre of the bell curve of a person's luck throughout their life will never be perfectly centred on neutral, some people's lives will be more lucky than others, and some will be less so, if you map the average luck of every person in the world, their average luck will be graded on (you guessed it) a bell curve centred on neutral luck, with extremely lucky and unlucky people being rare and... well you get the idea.
The "Statistical Loser" is the poor bastard who has the distinction of being the data point of life-time luck which is furthest into the "unlucky" end of the bell-curve, this person will have bad luck almost every single day, all their bell-curves will be centred on "oh fuck why did I even bother hoping something good might happen", they would lose any game of chance, and even though someone being ALWAYS unlucky seems to break the laws of probability, their existence is a statistical certainty, making the claim that "your luck cant be ALL bad ALL the time" a pointless statement which cannot be true for everyone.
I believed I was the Statistical Loser, it wasn't a self-pitying thought, it was almost validating, the idea that I had proven with mathematical theory that it was perfectly reasonable, and in fact a certainty, that someone could have such a miserable life without it being in any way their fault, and that I was that person, was almost freeing in a grim sort of way, but also stated that my luck would never get better. I do not believe I am the statistical loser for the entire human race, but I do believe I am the statistical loser at least for my immediate social circle.
1) Luck can be defined as unpredictable circumstances outside the observer's control which exert influence on the course of events for the observer producing an effect which is positive, negative or neutral for the observer.
2) On a completely "average" day your moment to moment luck should be graded on a bell curve centred on neutral with extremely positive or negative luck being rare, and less extreme luck being more common, with events of neutral luck being most common (and funnily enough entirely ignored by you).
3) The actual centre of the bell curve for each day will never actually be perfectly in the middle, some days your luck will be more positive than others, and for a completely "average" life, the averages of every day of your life can also be graded on a bell curve centred on neutral luck, with extremely lucky or unlucky days being rather rare in your life, and less extreme luck being more common with most days having roughly neutral luck.
4) The actual centre of the bell curve of a person's luck throughout their life will never be perfectly centred on neutral, some people's lives will be more lucky than others, and some will be less so, if you map the average luck of every person in the world, their average luck will be graded on (you guessed it) a bell curve centred on neutral luck, with extremely lucky and unlucky people being rare and... well you get the idea.
The "Statistical Loser" is the poor bastard who has the distinction of being the data point of life-time luck which is furthest into the "unlucky" end of the bell-curve, this person will have bad luck almost every single day, all their bell-curves will be centred on "oh fuck why did I even bother hoping something good might happen", they would lose any game of chance, and even though someone being ALWAYS unlucky seems to break the laws of probability, their existence is a statistical certainty, making the claim that "your luck cant be ALL bad ALL the time" a pointless statement which cannot be true for everyone.
I believed I was the Statistical Loser, it wasn't a self-pitying thought, it was almost validating, the idea that I had proven with mathematical theory that it was perfectly reasonable, and in fact a certainty, that someone could have such a miserable life without it being in any way their fault, and that I was that person, was almost freeing in a grim sort of way, but also stated that my luck would never get better. I do not believe I am the statistical loser for the entire human race, but I do believe I am the statistical loser at least for my immediate social circle.
