How superstitious are you?

[Simfan34]

Something I felt like asking after feeling a strong urge to save my essay at word #1,666.

[Yelnoc]

Never cross the finish line of a race before the actual race starts.

[© tweed]

only during sporting events.

[Kung Fu Kenny]

Generally is a pretty good way to describe my level of superstition.

[dead0man]

Rarely, and even then, it's usually for yuks yuks.

[Speed of Sound]

During a sporting event- 111%

Everything other time ever- 0%

[Alcon]

I definitely fall into irrationality (like the gambler's fallacy) on trivial things where I'm not really thinking about it, but I'm definitely not at all superstitious in the black cats/13 kind of way.  None of them make any intuitive sense to me.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Interesting question.

My brain is basically split in two completely separate parts: an hyper-rational one, which despises any form of superstition or any stretch from scientific reasoning, and another one which fears that even the most trivial thing can affect my life or politics in the most devastating ways. Ever time I see the time is HH:17, or when Nate Silver projects a candidate to win a State with 66.6% of the vote, this part of my brain gets bothered. I get obsessed with stuff like making sure the last State my cursor touches before leaving the prediction page is one I care about my candidate winning it (generally, Ohio). Sometimes I even try to find correlations between the songs that pop into my head and the evolution of a race. Fortunately, my rational brain recognizes that all this is crap, and always prevails in the decisions I take.

I guess superstition is a fundamental part of human nature, which one can't fully get rid of no matter how rational he is. Human mind fundamentally can't accept the concept of uncertainty, so we need to construct fictions were every everything is perfectly determined. At least I think that's how it works for me.

BTW, 17 days to go before the election!

[Napoleon]

only during sporting events.

green pants?
4pm?

[AndrewTX]

Somewhat, I knock on wood, and do find it bad luck to pick a penny up that is tails up.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Our class had a ceramic red rooster who we worshipped as a deity. At that point, I was pretty superstitious.

[Rooney]

I am not superstitious at all. I wear the same pair of socks everyday because I like the smell.