Decius comments on "Why doesn't that cool thing happen when I *try* to do it?" - Less Wrong
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Lots of people have trouble seeing "I did this and that happened immediately " as not a causal relation.
See every superstition ever.
Even otherwise intelligent people seem to fail at this one.