MOST PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO KNOW THE FUTURE

A new study published by the American Psychological Association finds that most people would rather not know what happens to them in the future. Researchers studied over 2,000 adults in Germany and Spain and found that 85 to 90 percent of them wouldn’t want to know about upcoming negative events in their futures, and 40 to 70 percent wouldn’t want to know about the positive events either.
– The participants were surveyed on a wide range of upcoming events, either positive or negative, such as the ability to know if they’d win a certain sports game, what they’d get for Christmas, or if their marriages would eventually end.
– Learning the gender of an unborn child was the only revelation more participants said they’d want to know than those who didn’t.
– The researchers noted that the nearer an event, the less likely someone would want to find out the spoiler.
* Uh – how do they explain fortune-tellers, psychics, and horoscopes?
* The people who make movie trailers that give away everything ought to read this study.
* If you knew your marriage was going to end, you would end your marriage, so isn’t that just self-fulfilling prophecy?
* Mostly I’d like to know how long our next commercial break is going to be, so I know if I should go to the bathroom now or during the next one.
* Let’s check on traffic. On the other hand let’s not. Most people would prefer we didn’t.