The Mystery and Science of Streaks
by Ben Cohen
Recommended by 3 notable people, including Alexis Ohanian and Anthony Pompliano
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A brilliant and buoyant investigation into the existence (or not) of streaks, from a rising star at the Wall Street Journal.For decades, statisticians, social scientists, psychologists, and economists (among them Nobel Prize winners) have spent massive amounts of precious time thinking about whether streaks actually exist. After all, a substantial ...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Sports, and Psychology.
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