Disproving Murphy's Law

Murphy's Law - "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" with and addition of "at the worst possible time", in Sod's Law or Finagle's Law.

Obviously this can easily be disproven by continous experimentation. I could be killed by Kronos right now(which is pretty wrong according to me), but it hasn't happened to me for 15 years. But is there a theoretical way to disprove Murphy's Law?

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And obviously no chatting, latex testing, or game/movie/shit discussions(Nathan).

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I have a theory that we typically only start thinking of "Murphy's Law" when things go against us. For example, if I go for a drive, I probably won't notice if I get 5 green lights in a row, but I will notice (and get annoyed) if I get 5 red lights in a row, even if the probabilities are the same. That means our dataset is flooded with the times we remember when things go against us, which helps promote the idea of "Murphy's Law" even more. (I guess my theory is more psychological than mathematical.)

David Vreken - 8 months, 2 weeks ago

That actually makes sense. Murphy's Law was also created on the basis of Murphy's thinking, when he said something like, "If there are two ways to do something and one ends in disaster, he'll(the technician) do it that way." when a technician hooked up the sensors in the wrong way. Though it can still be shown by multiple experiments that Murphy's law is wrong, which also shows that Murphy's Law depends more on psychology.