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Hot Hands and Hoops: Irrational Belief in the NBA
The Huffington Post: Professional basketball begins again next week, and dedicated fans will be happy to put last year’s labor disputes and lockout behind them. But many will also remember 2011-2012 as a magical season.
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Fans Fooled by the “Hot-Hand Fallacy”
Which countries and athletes will rise to the top? To make predictions, many people will look for athletes who are on a “hot streak,” such as US Women’s National Team forward Alex Morgan who scored
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Understand Uncertainty in Program Effects
Education Week: In education research, there’s a drive to cut to the chase: What’s the effect on the classroom? How much better will students perform on the state math test using this curriculum? How many
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Sharpen Your Skills in Chicago
You’ve been meaning to brush up on OpenMX but just haven’t gotten around to it; that free tutorial on the R programming environment hasn’t budged from the bottom of your to-do list since the beginning
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In the Mood for Some Pi(e)?
Thanks to computer-driven calculations, we know the ratio of the circumference of any circle to its diameter goes on past one trillion digits. But since the 18th century, we’ve just called this behemoth number, Pi
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‘The whole is not greater than the sum of its parts’ in face recognition
Yahoo! India: Until now, most research has suggested that we recognize faces ‘holistically’ – we look at all the features-eyes, nose, mouth-simultaneously and, perceiving the relationships among them, gain an advantage over taking in each