Episode 1732: The Science Of Steph Curry And Shakespeare’s Hot Streaks, Reappraising Super Mario Bros, Frances Finds Some TV Sport
Conor McGregor’s speech this week lifted a nation…. but we think we can improve on it. And we slowly come to the realisation that maybe mid 90’s video games aren’t quite as good as we thought they were back then.
The question of whether the ‘hot hand’ – the increase in accuracy a basketball player supposedly benefits from once they hit a scoring streak – actually exists, has divided players and academics for three decades. We’re joined today by Wall Street Journal reporter and author of ‘The Hot Hand’, Ben Cohen to discuss whether the idea is more than just hokum, and how it applies to fields far beyond basketball.
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