According to Robert Murphy's account, his father's statement was along the lines of "If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then he will do it that way. The phrase first received public attention during a press conference in which Stapp was asked how it was that nobody had been severely injured during the rocket sled tests. Stapp replied that it was because they always took Murphy's law under consideration; he then summarized the law and said that in general, it meant that it was important to consider all the possibilities possible things that could go wrong before doing a test and act to counter them.
Thus Stapp's usage and Murphy's alleged usage are very different in outlook and attitude. One is sour, the other an affirmation of the predictable being surmountable, usually by sufficient planning and redundancy. Nichols believes Murphy was unwilling to take the responsibility for the device's initial failure by itself a blip of no large significance and is to be doubly damned for not allowing the MX team time to validate the sensor's operability and for trying to blame an underling when doing so in the embarrassing aftermath. The association with the incident is by no means secure.
Despite extensive research, no trace of documentation of the saying as Murphy's law has been found before see above. The next citations are not found until , when the May—June issue of Aviation Mechanics Bulletin included the line "Murphy's law: If an aircraft part can be installed incorrectly, someone will install it that way," [12] and Lloyd Mallan's book, Men, Rockets and Space Rats , referred to: Shapiro , the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations , has shown that in the adage was called "Murphy's law" in a book by Anne Roe, quoting an unnamed physicist:.
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In May , [14] Anne Roe gives a transcript of an interview part of a Thematic Apperception Test , asking impressions on a photograph with Theoretical Physicist number 3: The name "Murphy's law" was not immediately secure. A story by Lee Correy in the February issue of Astounding Science Fiction referred to "Reilly's law," which "states that in any scientific or engineering endeavor, anything that can go wrong will go wrong". It could be stated about like this: If anything bad can happen, it probably will.
Nichols, a quality assurance manager with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. An excerpt from the letter reads:. The law's namesake was Capt. I assigned Murphy's law to the statement and the associated variations. According to Richard Dawkins , so-called laws like Murphy's law and Sod's law are nonsense because they require inanimate objects to have desires of their own, or else to react according to one's own desires. Dawkins points out that a certain class of events may occur all the time, but are only noticed when they become a nuisance. He gives as an example aircraft noise interfering with filming.
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Aircraft are in the sky all the time, but are only taken note of when they cause a problem. This is a form of confirmation bias whereby the investigator seeks out evidence to confirm his already formed ideas, but does not look for evidence that contradicts them. Similarly, David Hand , emeritus professor of mathematics and senior research investigator at Imperial College London , points out that the law of truly large numbers should lead one to expect the kind of events predicted by Murphy's law to occur occasionally.
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Selection bias will ensure that those ones are remembered and the many times Murphy's law was not true are forgotten. There have been persistent references to Murphy's law associating it with the laws of thermodynamics from early on see the quotation from Anne Roe's book above. Chatterjee found that Murphy's law so stated could be disproved using the principle of least action.
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