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Has the hot hand effect finally been proven?

A popular belief among sportswriters and broadcasters says that a team that's been successful, should…

Phil BirnbaumAugust 3, 2015

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Distribution of badness

In a recent article, I mentioned the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest, the aim of which is…

Mikhail SimkinMay 30, 2013

Charles Dickens

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Statistics against irritations: a response to Dickens’s apologists or If high readership is the test of good writing, then 50 Shades of Grey is a work of genius…

Recently I discussed my article1 which reported the results of the test where the takers…

Mikhail SimkinMay 7, 2013

Charles Dickens

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A scientific evaluation of Charles Dickens

Previously I discussed1 my experiment that tested whether people can tell the masterpieces of abstract…

Mikhail SimkinMarch 21, 2013