[Grieryaliny]

If a coin comes up heads 10 times in a row then I update my priors about it being a fair coin.

[enencephoth]

Would you count it as superstitious?

[soryalomop]

Would you count it as superstitious?

No.

JM

[tattcasetle]

On an emotional level I am very superstitious. It's more fun that way. On an intellectual level I am not superstitious at all so far as I can tell, but I'd be surprised if at least some of those truths I accept aren't just superstitions themselves.

[FoetAgerhot46]

I wanted to say "not at all", but I sometimes notice it when it's friday the 13th, so maybe "1".

[WaydayFep]

Religion pretty clearly fits the definition of superstition to the letter.

[raskrutkaseo]

So basically, it refers to all those unreasonable religions. Not a reasonable one, like, say, witchcraft.

[Trercakaressy]

I put down 2. I will not punch old gypsy women, just in case.

[Bounce]

In my daily life, I'm not superstitious. But, I do believe if an announcer says, "he hasn't thrown an interception in 3 weeks, missed a free throw, field goal, etc., that almost immediately a miss will occur.

Or, if I bet on a game, that team will lose.

ACK!

[mp3 free]

Where do ghosts fit in?

They don't seem to fit the definition Loin offered of a supernatural causality--they're more of an unverifiable belief concerning the afterlife. I suppose if you believed breaking a mirror would bring down bad juju because it irritates the ghosts, that might count as a superstition, but the general drift here seems to be idiosyncratic ideas about the consequences of our actions.