Editing Sod's law (section)

== Comparison with Murphy's law ==
Sod's law is a more extreme version of Murphy's law. While Murphy's law says that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong (eventually), Sod's law requires that it will ''always'' go wrong with the worst possible outcome or at the worst time. Belief in Sod's law can be viewed as a combination of the [[law of truly large numbers]] and the psychological effect of the [[law of selection]]. The former says we should expect things to go wrong now and then, and the latter says the exceptional events where something went wrong stand out in memory, but the great number of mundane events where nothing exceptional happened fall into obscurity.<ref name=Hand>{{cite book|last=Hand|first=David J.|title=The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e1iNAgAAQBAg|date=11 February 2014|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-0-374-17534-4|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=e1iNAgAAQBAg&pg=PA197 197–198]}}</ref> Sod’s law is also explained as a form of the natural human [[negativity bias]], the survival trait of being extra alert to negative events.<ref name="whatculture">{{cite web |last=Shephard |first=Stevie |date=18 July 2015 |title=5 Sod's Law Annoyances That Have Scientific Explanations |url=https://whatculture.com/offbeat/5-sods-law-annoyances-that-have-scientific-explanations?page=5 |website=whatculture.com}}</ref>