Superstition “is a belief, half-belief, or practice for which there appears to be no rational substance.” People tend to believe that they have their own certain knowledge or evidence that supports religious beliefs or philosophical reasoning’s. This leads people into believing that they have more control than the reality and actuality of all situations and circumstances. Many customs that we take for granted as being a “normal” part of our culture have actually evolved from superstitious beliefs of the past.
There are two examples that grabbed my attention the most out of the video. The first one being in 1948 American Psychologist BF Skinner reported some unusual animal behavior. He placed a succession of hungry pigeons inside a cage, where an automated machine delivered food to them at certain intervals. He observed that the birds started repeating actions that coincided with the delivery of the food. They acted as if their behavior was causing the food to appear but in fact the food would have appeared regardless of any action the birds decided to make. The second is the Magician compared to the Medium example. When a magician performs that magical work they put on, the question that normally rises is “What’s their trick?” Then when the Medium does likewise, the question transforms to a statement: “They must have supernatural powers”. In the middle lie uncannily accurate details about your life and relationships. In reality neither person possess anything more or less than the other, it all depends on how we perceive to view things and the way we tend to believe them. What need to be seen are the different presentation styles that the two present.
Due to my opinion, I think that superstition is just a way that one choses to believe in or not believe in. Those who find themselves revolving their life around superstitious beliefs, find their world delivering exactly what they want. This also leads to “giving more attention and weight to the data that supports ones personal belief”, also known as confirmation bias. A type of selective thinking where one only notices and pays attention to things that do not contradict the beliefs also helps prove confirmation bias. People who are really superstitious tend to try and avoid conflict blindness. Conflict blindness means to “come into collision or disagreement”. These beliefs make it almost impossible to face the reality of things because one’s own rationalizations get in the way of viewing things from a different perspective. So, the obvious clues are missed and people continue with self-blame and rely on their mental process to express what is intended to be right or wrong.
In conclusion when do we stop and think about personal responsibility within all the reasoning’s in why we believe what we do? When one possess open, honest and thoughtful communication, you can reveal aspects of life that have been hidden within ones mind. It is a lot easier said than done, because even for myself I know that being superstitious is all about where your mind can take you and its not true reality. It just seems easier to defy logic and proceed in believing our own psychic powers. The validity of superstitions is almost always recognized but just set aside and done nothing with. As followed is a question that I, myself do not even have an answer to, but is logical and needs to be considered because who knows what one is missing out on in life while continuing to believe in superstition after superstition: If something is not valid, why do people continue to believe and not only believe but let it affect their everyday lifestyles?

References http://www.truthpizza.org/logic/stition.htm http://skepdic.com/confirmbias.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/confirmation_bias.htm