Tag: Statistical fallacies

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post

Author
Gary Smith
Date
February 14, 2020

Categorized
Sports

Tagged
3-point contest, Basketball, Hot Hands, National Basketball Association (NBA), Statistical fallacies, Statistics}

Is “Hot Hands” Just a Basketball Myth?

_{Not so fast…} _{Gary Smith

February 14, 2020

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Sports}

The paper that busted the myth of “hot hands” is justly famous. But statisticians are not prophets. Craig Hodges’ streak of 19 in a row in the 1991 contest is still too incredible to be explained by luck or cherry-picking. The numbers show that hot hands don’t happen every day, but they do happen.

Study Shows Eating Raisins Causes Plantar Warts

_{Sure. Because, if you torture a Big Data enough, it will confess to anything} _{Robert J. Marks

December 17, 2018

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Machine Learning, Social Factors}

Enormous data sets compiled by Big Data methods have a higher probability of meaningless correlations than smaller ones compiled by traditional methods. More than ever, common sense is needed. And common sense only comes from programmers writing their own common sense into the software. Read More ›