Beginner's luck

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Beginner's luck refers to the expected phenomenon of beginners who experience a disproportionate or successful frequency of success against an expert in a particular activity. One would expect experts to outperform a beginner - when the opposite happens it is counter-intuitive, hence the need for a term to describe this phenomenon. This term is most often used in reference to the first attempt in sports or gambling, but is also used in many other diverse contexts. The term is also used when there is no skill involved, just like the slot machine player first won the jackpot.

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Cause

Whether the beginner's luck or not as a statistical phenomenon really happens varies by situation. There are many explanations:

1. The beginner's luck comes from the disconnect between the player and the pressure of the game. A beginner player is inexperienced and consequently not expected to do well. This means that there is no pressure on the player to excel; this lack of pressure allows players to concentrate more than the suppressed veteran players. This is in contrast to the Rosenthal effect that states that students who are expected to perform better usually perform better.
2. In a competitive game, skilled players will expect certain actions to be taken by opponents in certain situations and prepare their strategies using these predictions. This is especially true in card games, chess, etc. However, beginners do not have the skills and often will not take the best course of action. The skilled player is off guard and can not predict or correctly interpret his opponent's actions and he loses most of his profits.
3. Game experts will believe in beginner's luck because they themselves experience a disproportionate good fortune as a beginner. Suppose 100 beginners play games for the first time, and half wins randomly. Half of the wins are more likely to be interested in the game and become experts, while the losing half are more likely to lose interest and never play again. Thus, in any game, "experts" will believe in novice luck, simply because they disproportionately experience the good fortune of being a beginner himself.
4. Another explanation begins by noting that the acquisition of a new skill imposes limits on the number of actions available to the agent. In the early stages of this process, almost unlimited amount of action is possible. Although almost all of this is ineffective, the possibility of extraordinarily effective effective action materialized by chance is still greater than when a person has attained a moderate skill level, because, as one's ability increases, the range of possible actions becomes more legitimate and more limited. , deviating from the strange aberration of the average of both directions. Because of the availability of heuristics, this run with rough capabilities will stand out against the basic level of general awkwardness.
5. The belief in beginner luck can be generated from confirmation bias - the times when a very good performing beginner tends to be remembered, whilst an opportunity in which a beginner performs poorly is forgotten.

The beginner's luck is expected to end once a player is involved with the game, and the "innocent" psychological mindset is replaced with a mind-set relating to the nuances of the game.

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See also

• Regression to mean
• Amateur
• Jinx
• Luck
• Mojo
• Opportunities
• Psychology
• Rookie

Source of the article : Wikipedia