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Proof that humans would rather carry a rabbit's foot than learn statistics.
means An object believed to bring good fortune to whoever carries or wears it.
from A fusion of two old threads: 'lucky' traces to Middle Low German 'luk/gelucke,' meaning fortune or happy chance, which entered English around the 1500s; 'charm' comes from Latin 'carmen,' meaning song or incantation — because the earliest charms were literally sung or chanted spells. Over centuries 'charm' drifted from magic words to the small trinkets meant to carry that magic — a rabbit's foot, a four-leaf clover, a coin in your shoe — so the phrase quietly preserves an old belief that luck, like a spell, could be worn.
- actual rabbits
- did not find the foot lucky
- origin
- confirmation bias wearing a cute necklace
- psychology term
- illusion of control under uncertainty
- cereal cameo
- marshmallows magically delicious, luck unproven