Caltech's NCAA record 207 game streak is broken
Clearly The Quantum Pontiff jinxed them, maybe in some alternate reality the streak continues unbroken...
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Someone should really tell the NCAA tournament television commentators that "the hot hand" doesn't exist. I've gotten pretty tired of hearing these tired cliches about Texas going cold, or Stephen Curry catching fire yet again. Never has a cognitive illusion gotten so much play.
Tuesday - day when four out of seven PLoS journals publish new articles and I pick a few most 'bloggable' ones to highlight here.
It's been a hotly debated scientific question for decades: was Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak a genuine statistical outlier, or is it an expected statistical aberration, given the long history of major league baseball?
tags: Zitting Cisticola, Streaked Fantail Warbler,