This guy is a professor of psychology. His speciality? Luck. I’d have thought that luck, like Intelligent Design, is something that by definition is outside the range of science: if you find a reason why one person is luckier than another, then it’s no longer a question of luck.
His latest wheeze? (scroll down)
A scientist is to test the reputation of Skibbereen, Co Cork — widely considered to be the luckiest town in Ireland. Professor Richard Wiseman, of the University of Hertfordshire, will buy 50 lottery tickets in Skibbereen and a further 50 in Dublin, for the draw tomorrow.
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