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Isn't there a basic math aspect to this? Everything like looks, basic intelligence, rhythm, musical ability, sportsmanship are distributed among people accordi
by abc_lisper 12y ago
Isn't there a basic math aspect to this?
Everything like looks, basic intelligence, rhythm, musical ability, sportsmanship are
distributed among people according to a (mostly) uniform distribution.
I would believe you can say the samething about luck.
Now don't get the wrong idea that I advocate people to be bums waiting for the "luck" to happen to them. Not everybody who works their ass off(while being smart) is successful.
We can quote a lot of examples from history to see this isn't the case.
And then there are people like Kardashians, who got to where they are, by what?
- Nocturnographer 12y agoActually, physical attributes are probably distributed closer to a Gaussian distribution - most people clustered around the average, with a small number of exceptionally lucky and exceptionally unlucky people in the tails of the distribution. I would agree with you that in some vague sense, we might be able to think of a "luck distribution" with similar properties; however, it's not obvious what exactly that would mean in terms of what is actually being measured. Wealth? Happiness? Recognition in their field? All of these in the short run? The long run?
- abc_lisper 12y agoYeah, you are right. It is Gaussian distribution. We have to come up with an accurate definition of luck, and a way to quantify it. It is a function of work put in and the results obtained. And we have to define how to quantify work. Another way is to think of world with no luck in it. How would it affect us? Would the world be the same?