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    "title": "Why are some people so much luckier than others?",
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    "created": "2014-09-28 21:24:37 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>In one experiment, Wiseman asked people to self identify themselves as lucky or unlucky. Then he gave his test subjects a newspaper. \u00e2\u0080\u009cCount the number of photographs inside\u00e2\u0080\u009d, he told them.</p>\n<p>There were 43 photographs.</p>\n<p>On average, the unlucky people took 2 minutes to count them all. The lucky people? Seconds.</p>\n<p>The lucky people noticed the giant message that took up half the second page of the newspaper. It said, \u00e2\u0080\u009cStop counting \u00e2\u0080\u0093 There are 43 photographs in this newspaper.\u00e2\u0080\u009d</p>\n<p>The unlucky people missed it. They also missed the equally giant message half way through the newspaper, \u00e2\u0080\u009cStop counting, tell the experimenter you have seen this and win $250.\u00e2\u0080\u009d</p>\n<p>The \u00e2\u0080\u009clucky\u00e2\u0080\u009d people weren\u00e2\u0080\u0099t lucky. They were just more observant.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http://ninjasandrobots.com/why-are-some-people-so-much-luckier-than-others\">Why are some people so much luckier than others?</a>.</p>\n"
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