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