@lemondrop saidI have been noticing this phenomenon for years and years. Does your concept of "large numbers" mean I will, at some point, experience years and years of plugging in USB cables or flash disks and finding, consistent to an uncanny degree, that I have them the right way up?
the law of large numbers will eventually even things out
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@fmf said-My toasted muffin will fall, jam side down 90% of the time if dropped.
Nine times out of ten ~ not 50% of the time ~ when I try to plug in a USB cable or flash disk, I have it upside down. It's uncanny.
More examples of little things?
-If a word or name is spelled with ie or ei in it, I'll guess the wrong spelling 90% of the time.
- When I first turn on the TV, it will be at the beginning of a commercial - ad cycle, guaranteeing maximum time wastage 90% of the time
- When I turn on the radio, the last 6 notes of my favorite song will be played, then fade away, not to be played again on that station until the next decade 90% of the time.
- When a news anchor asks a politician the simplest "yes" or 'no" question, they'll talk for a minimum of 3 min. NEVER pronouncing the words "yes" or "no" 90% of the time.
- Whenever I listen to ANY politician talk, I get a strong with the urge to drop them from the sky into a large Hyenas' 90% of the time.
@fmf saidThe things that become a problem to be solved intrude into your consciousness and so become over represented in your memory. You barely notice them going in the right way round as you think about other things.
I have been noticing this phenomenon for years and years. Does your concept of "large numbers" mean I will, at some point, experience years and years of plugging in USB cables or flash disks and finding, consistent to an uncanny degree, that I have them the right way up?
@relentless-red saidThis does not seem to be the case with my USB connections, however, because the pattern continued after I became conscious of it and started to pay attention to it every time I wanted to plug something in. Since I wrote this OP, for example, and mindful of it, I have plugged USB things into other things 8 times, and 7 of them were the wrong way up at first try. [This does not include USB Type C of course.]
The things that become a problem to be solved intrude into your consciousness and so become over represented in your memory. You barely notice them going in the right way round as you think about other things.
@fmf saidPerhaps you are compelled to keep doing the same things.
This does not seem to be the case with my USB connections, however, because the pattern continued after I became conscious of it and started to pay attention to it every time I wanted to plug something in. Since I wrote this OP, for example, and mindful of it, I have plugged USB things into other things 8 times, and 7 of them were the wrong way up at first try. [This does not include USB Type C of course.]
@relentless-red saidI am compelled to keep plugging in USB things, yes. I am, of course, talking about when I try to do so blind. I obviously don't get them upside down when I check first.
Perhaps you are compelled to keep doing the same things.