Tag: Hot Hand Fallacy

Basketball scoring basket at a sports arena

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post

Author
Jay Cordes and Gary Smith
Date
January 4, 2021

Categorized
Sports

Tagged
Craig Hodges, Data analysis, Featured, Hot Hand Fallacy, Phantom Pattern Problem (book), Probability, Statistics, Steph Curry}

Steph Curry Got Red Hot and Torched the “Hot Hand Fallacy”

_{Many statisticians dismiss remarkable streaks like his as the Hot Hand Fallacy. Are they right?} _{Jay Cordes and Gary Smith

January 4, 2021

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Sports}

Is “Hot Hands” really a fallacy, as some claim? Steph Curry is arguably the greatest shooter in National Basketball Association (NBA) history. In 2020, during practice the day after Christmas, Curry demolished that record by making 105 consecutive 3-point shots. Read More ›