We can attribute some of this skepticism to the Comcast-NBC merger and concerns that control on content creation as well as distribution will affect cable networks and cable operators alike.

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If you attribute your successful results on luck or ease of the test, your locus of control is external.

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Furthermore, have you picked-up on how we tend to attribute our success to our own brilliance but our failure to outside circumstances beyond our control?

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