Sod's Law Revealed

I told you Sod's Law was real - a descriptive formula for the law has been calculated, and by a Cardiff University lecturer no less. Mathematically it is expressed as:

1/8Ti x I 3/8 + O + Sb
P + M

with:

• Task Importance (Ti)

• Inconvenience, and financial and emotional cost of task not going to plan (I)

• Optimism - the tendency to think everything will work out fine (O)

• Background Personal Stress Levels (Sb)

• Extent of Planning (P)

• Memory - especially for things that worked out well

I'm not entirely sure how I'll be using this on a day to day basis, but it's a good start to changing some of the variables and avoiding the effects of Sod's law.

Link to BBC article.