Are We Coins?

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Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 June 2009

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

After we released our show about Stochasticity, we received a lot of comments about the idea humans can be just as predictable as coins. In that show, Jonah Lehrer was telling us about a study on the 82-83 76ers, and he was saying that even when a basketball player is supposedly hot – really on a streak – he is no more likely to make his next shot that any other time. Basketball players are slaves to their averages. Well, it turns out this isn't the whole story.

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