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There must be something like a Second Place Syndrome, with a Schroedinger's Cat corollary. I just have a hard time winning 50/50 propositions. Coin flips, opening packs, seeing if an unlabeled door is push or pull, I always guess wrong.
When there's a high-end card on ebay I really want and I place a bid on it, and lately I've come in 2nd. If I decide not to, or forget, it'll sell for well under what I would've bid. I must have a really good feel for what the high bidder will do, and subconsciously either drive the price up, or have pre-bid buyer's remorse and prevent myself from going the extra bit.
Similarly, if there's 1-2 packs left in a box at the shop, and I open them, I'll get nothing. If someone else opens them, they get something. The packs are in a state of containing a hit and not containing a hit, and my fingers drive the hits right out of them.
When there's a high-end card on ebay I really want and I place a bid on it, and lately I've come in 2nd. If I decide not to, or forget, it'll sell for well under what I would've bid. I must have a really good feel for what the high bidder will do, and subconsciously either drive the price up, or have pre-bid buyer's remorse and prevent myself from going the extra bit.
Similarly, if there's 1-2 packs left in a box at the shop, and I open them, I'll get nothing. If someone else opens them, they get something. The packs are in a state of containing a hit and not containing a hit, and my fingers drive the hits right out of them.
