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A comment on Simpson's Paradox and the Hot Hand in Basketball (1995). Parent comment

Re:Simpson's Paradox and the Hot Hand in Basketball (1995) by glaugh on Saturday November 25, 2017 @06:35PM (#15778590)
The original paper only covered free throws as one of three examples of the hot hand fallacy. The other examples were of shooting in the normal run of play.

http://node101.psych.cornell.edu/sec/pubPeople/tdg1/Gilo.Val...

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Re:Simpson's Paradox and the Hot Hand in Basketball (1995) by currymj on Saturday November 25, 2017 @07:52PM (#15778856)
more recent statistical analyses have found evidence for a hot hand effect, though.

i also don't necessarily like calling it a fallacy, as i've definitely run into some people who misinterpret that word, basically assuming that there can never be autocorrelation in data, and anyone who thinks there is must be falling prey to a logical fallacy.

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