Through.the.Wormhole.S05E02.Is.Luck.Real.720p.HDTV.x264-DHD Subtitles

At 00:00:01,150, Character said: Luck may be the most
mysterious and capricious force

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At 00:00:05,229, Character said: in the universe.

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At 00:00:08,229, Character said: But what exactly is luck?

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At 00:00:11,229, Character said: Why do some of us
win the lottery twice,

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At 00:00:14,229, Character said: while others have bad luck
for no apparent reason?

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At 00:00:18,229, Character said: What's behind
strange coincidences

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At 00:00:21,229, Character said: and incredible twists of fate?

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At 00:00:24,229, Character said: Does random chance
decide our destiny?

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At 00:00:27,229, Character said: Or is every roll of the dice
predetermined by physics?

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At 00:00:32,229, Character said: Scientists are trying
to beat the odds...

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At 00:00:35,229, Character said: to prove whether or not
luck is real.

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At 00:00:44,229, Character said: Space, time, life itself.

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At 00:00:51,229, Character said: The secrets of the cosmos
lie through the wormhole.

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At 00:00:55,376, Character said: Subtitles by MemoryOnSmells
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At 00:01:08,837, Character said: How did you get
to where you are today?

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At 00:01:12,011, Character said: Maybe you struggled
and worked hard.

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At 00:01:15,011, Character said: Or maybe you inherited a fortune

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At 00:01:17,011, Character said: and never worked a day
in your life.

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At 00:01:20,011, Character said: Some things
are beyond our control.

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At 00:01:24,011, Character said: Does the universe
have a plan for us?

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At 00:01:28,011, Character said: Or is our fate
the product of random chance?

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At 00:01:32,011, Character said: Do we make our own luck?

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At 00:01:37,011, Character said: Or does luck make us?

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At 00:01:43,011, Character said: When I was growing up,

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At 00:01:45,011, Character said: kids would carry
a lucky rabbit's foot.

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At 00:01:48,011, Character said: For some reason, we believed

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At 00:01:50,011, Character said: these severed paws granted
their bearers good fortune.

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At 00:01:56,011, Character said: Did they work?

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At 00:01:58,011, Character said: Well, maybe.

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At 00:02:01,011, Character said: I lost that rabbit's foot
long ago

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At 00:02:06,011, Character said: and my belief in lucky charms.

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At 00:02:09,011, Character said: But perhaps my younger self
was onto something.

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At 00:02:17,011, Character said: Go to a casino, and you'll see

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At 00:02:19,011, Character said: any number
of superstitious rituals

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At 00:02:22,011, Character said: performed by players
hoping for good luck.

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At 00:02:25,011, Character said: Everyone has a strategy.

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At 00:02:28,011, Character said: First, I do a der voghormia,
which is an Armenian prayer,

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At 00:02:32,011, Character said: and then I play
my son's birth numbers.

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At 00:02:35,011, Character said: The chips all have to
face up the same way.

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At 00:02:38,011, Character said: Rituals of good luck develop

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At 00:02:41,011, Character said: because we believe

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At 00:02:43,011, Character said: that something we do
can influence chance.

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At 00:02:53,011, Character said: Sally linkenauger,

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At 00:02:55,011, Character said: a lecturer in psychology
at Lancaster University,

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At 00:02:59,011, Character said: suspects believing you're lucky

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At 00:03:01,011, Character said: actually changes the way
you play.

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At 00:03:06,011, Character said: She's conducting
a series of experiments

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At 00:03:09,011, Character said: to test her hypothesis.

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At 00:03:12,011, Character said: So, what we did
is we recruited people

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At 00:03:14,011, Character said: who played golf
on a regular basis,

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At 00:03:16,011, Character said: and we told half of them
they were using a putter

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At 00:03:19,011, Character said: that had belonged
to a famous golfer.

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At 00:03:21,011, Character said: So, this is actually
Ben Curtis' putter.

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At 00:03:25,011, Character said: He's a professional golfer who
won the British open in 2003.

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At 00:03:28,011, Character said: So, I'm gonna have you
take 10 putts

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At 00:03:30,011, Character said: and we'll see how you do.

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At 00:03:36,011, Character said: The other golfers
hear a different story.

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At 00:03:39,011, Character said: All right, so,
this is a really nice putter.

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At 00:03:41,011, Character said: I'd like you to use it
to take about 10 putts,

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At 00:03:44,011, Character said: and we'll see how you do.

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At 00:03:47,011, Character said: As you'd expect
with any random group,

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At 00:03:50,011, Character said: some do better than others.

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At 00:03:53,011, Character said: But after dozens of trials,
a pattern emerges.

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At 00:03:56,011, Character said: So, once they started putting,
the individuals that thought

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At 00:04:00,011, Character said: they were using
Ben Curtis' putter

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At 00:04:02,011, Character said: made about a putt and a half
more out of 10 putts

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At 00:04:05,011, Character said: than the group that thought they
were just using a nice putter.

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At 00:04:10,011, Character said: The golf club isn't lucky.

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At 00:04:14,011, Character said: What's real
is the player's belief

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At 00:04:17,011, Character said: in whether or not
the club is lucky.

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At 00:04:19,011, Character said: Sally suspects
this kind of superstition

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At 00:04:22,011, Character said: helps people cope with chaotic
or stressful situations.

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At 00:04:26,011, Character said: There's kind of a sweet spot in
terms of the amount of pressure

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At 00:04:30,011, Character said: that you need in order to
perform a task most efficiently.

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At 00:04:32,011, Character said: If you have a small amount
of pressure,

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At 00:04:34,011, Character said: it just means you really don't
care, so you don't perform well.

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At 00:04:37,011, Character said: Too much pressure,
you freeze up.

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At 00:04:39,011, Character said: So you want to have the perfect, kind
of a sweet-spot amount of pressure,

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At 00:04:42,011, Character said: and when you're performing
a task

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At 00:04:44,011, Character said: and people are watching you,

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At 00:04:46,011, Character said: people put a lot of pressure
on themselves to play well.

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At 00:04:49,011, Character said: But that pressure
is less debilitating

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At 00:04:51,011, Character said: when a player is holding
a lucky putter.

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At 00:04:55,011, Character said: We think
that when they're putting,

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At 00:04:57,011, Character said: they're offloading some
of this pressure that they feel.

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At 00:05:00,011, Character said: This putter is gonna do
some of the work for them.

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At 00:05:02,011, Character said: It's not all on them.

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At 00:05:04,011, Character said: And that release in pressure kind of
allows them to perform a bit better.

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At 00:05:08,011, Character said: Sally suspects a belief in luck

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At 00:05:11,011, Character said: does more
than just boost confidence...

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At 00:05:14,011, Character said: It changes perception.

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At 00:05:18,011, Character said: In her lab,
Sally asks the golfers

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At 00:05:22,011, Character said: to draw the size of the hole.

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At 00:05:25,011, Character said: So, this is the actual size
of the golf hole.

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At 00:05:28,011, Character said: All the golfers think

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At 00:05:29,011, Character said: that the hole looks smaller
than it actually is.

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At 00:05:32,011, Character said: However, individuals who were
using Ben Curtis' putter

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At 00:05:35,011, Character said: thought the golf hole
looked larger.

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At 00:05:37,011, Character said: On average, the golfers
with an ordinary club

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At 00:05:41,011, Character said: see the hole
as being 11% smaller

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At 00:05:44,011, Character said: and harder to hit

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At 00:05:46,011, Character said: than the golfers with
the so-called "lucky" putter.

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At 00:05:54,011, Character said: Is luck all in the mind?

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At 00:05:58,011, Character said: Confidence is a big
part of succeeding, I think,

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At 00:06:01,011, Character said: in anything that you do,

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At 00:06:03,011, Character said: and it is possible
that using this club

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At 00:06:05,011, Character said: made people more confident
in their playing.

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At 00:06:07,011, Character said: I wouldn't necessarily
call that luck.

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At 00:06:10,011, Character said: I would call it

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At 00:06:11,011, Character said: handling our emotions
and handling our anxiety

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At 00:06:13,011, Character said: and the pressure that we feel when
we are performing these actions

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At 00:06:17,011, Character said: in a way
that's manageable for us.

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At 00:06:27,011, Character said: But one man thinks
believing you are lucky

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At 00:06:30,011, Character said: will only get you so far.

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At 00:06:34,011, Character said: A professor of law
at Northwestern university

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At 00:06:38,011, Character said: and a master statistician,

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At 00:06:41,011, Character said: Jay koehler sees everything
as variations on the mean.

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At 00:06:46,011, Character said: The "mean" is another word
for the "average."

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At 00:06:49,011, Character said: A star athlete has good days
and bad, but it evens out.

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At 00:06:55,011, Character said: For example, a basketball player
might be a 33% 3-point shooter.

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At 00:06:59,011, Character said: If he's very good, he might be
a 45% 3-point shooter,

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At 00:07:03,011, Character said: but any given day, the player
might be shooting more like 50%

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At 00:07:08,011, Character said: or might be more like 35%.

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At 00:07:10,011, Character said: Nothing unusual is going on.

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At 00:07:12,011, Character said: The player is just
bouncing around his mean.

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At 00:07:16,011, Character said: But what's happening

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At 00:07:18,011, Character said: when a player appears
to have a hot...