Talk:Beginner's luck

Opening comment

Hello, I would think another explanation might be that experienced players take it easy on beginners (perhaps even unconsciously). So they might unwittingly throw the game to the less experienced player. But I don't have any sources for (or against!) this, and don't want to add original research.

Cheers,

VTPG (talk) 05:16, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Slot machines

The article as it stands claims that slot machines which have recently been played extensively (without a jackpot) have a higher chance of producing a jackpot. I believe this is not actually a feature of any widely used slot machines (although there are machines where the value of the jackpot increases, that is not the point at issue) and claim therefore is simply a gambler's fallacy. As such I will remove the claim. 72.19.76.225 (talk) 21:32, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Sourcing

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I am struggling to find ANY sources on this topic at all, although I have heard it anecdotally in my life. The only source I could find was the life-hacker article. However, that article links to the Wikipedia page in its lead section, and because of this I believe sourcing it as actually circular sourcing (because that article used Wikipedia as a source). Google scholar gave no results, neither did the multiple search engines I tried. I seems as if no scholarly work on this exists at all.

If anyone can find any sources at all, that would be greatly appreciated.

@Scientific29: Is this original research? (If it is, it is really well written.)

TheMickyRosen-Left (talk) 17:49, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

EDIT: I added another source: the cambridge dictionary definition for beginner's luck. Can't find any other sources of value however by looking through all the tools given by the "more sources needed template." TheMickyRosen-Left (talk) 18:01, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, @TheMickyRosen-Left: I wrote this almost a decade (!) ago, so I'm not sure. But I would guess that it is original research, given I didn't provide any sources. Cheers, Scientific29 (talk) 05:06, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Human Growth and Development

In some cultures a child is allowed to win early in an activity which would inforce an expectation that he or she is better at something in the beginning. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BradVesp (talk • contribs) 10:53, 18 September 2022 (UTC)