How superstitious are you?

[loinburger]

0 means "not at all superstitious," 10 means "extremely superstitious"

The definition of "superstition" I'm using is from Wikipedia:

Superstition is a belief in supernatural causality: that one event leads to the cause of another without any process in the physical world linking the two events.

Examples include: belief in fortune-telling (e.g. astrology or I Ching), belief in fate or karma, fear of certain things or events such as the number thirteen or black cats, throwing spilled salt over your shoulder, belief that certain things or events are lucky (e.g. the number seven or a horseshoe), belief in supernaturally affected probability (e.g. belief that if a fair coin comes up heads ten times in a row, then the odds are not 50/50 that it will come up heads an eleventh time), etc.

[KrazyHorse]

If a coin comes up heads 10 times in a row then I update my priors about it being a fair coin.

[Jon Miller]

What if you believe that God acts through physical processes, but just not ones we understand? Would you count that as superstitious or not?

JM

[loinburger]

Would you count it as superstitious?

[Lorizael]

I don't believe in any superstitions, but I like to act on some of them for the fun of it sometimes. Mostly this concerns dice.

[Jon Miller]

Would you count it as superstitious?

No.

JM

[loinburger]

Well there you go then.

I don't know enough about the specifics of your beliefs about God to make the judgment call as to whether they're superstitious. In general, religious belief could go either way (e.g., if somebody said that God listened to their prayers when they played craps, then I would say that they were superstitious).

[Aeson]

On an emotional level I am very superstitious. It's more fun that way. On an intellectual level I am not superstitious at all so far as I can tell, but I'd be surprised if at least some of those truths I accept aren't just superstitions themselves.

[SlowwHand]

I'll go with 3, as an acceptance of karma.

[BeBMan]

I wanted to say "not at all", but I sometimes notice it when it's friday the 13th, so maybe "1".

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well there you go then.

I don't know enough about the specifics of your beliefs about God to make the judgment call as to whether they're superstitious. In general, religious belief could go either way (e.g., if somebody said that God listened to their prayers when they played craps, then I would say that they were superstitious).

Well God listens to the prayers of that person, though He just shakes His head and wonders if He should have promised Noah not to wipe out humanity again (I kid, I kid!!).

[Hauldren Collider]

Religion pretty clearly fits the definition of superstition to the letter.

[Imran Siddiqui]

According to wiki:

The French word, together with its Romance cognates (Italian superstizione, Spanish supersticion, Portuguese superstição) continues Latin superstitio. From its first use in the Classical Latin of Livy and Ovid (1st century BC), the term is used in the pejorative sense it still holds today, of an excessive fear of the gods or unreasonable religious belief, as opposed to religio, the proper, reasonable awe of the gods.

So, not quite if we are going by original intent.

[Hauldren Collider]

So basically, it refers to all those unreasonable religions. Not a reasonable one, like, say, witchcraft.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Not at all, and I plan on staying that way (touch wood).