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| Title |
The Hot (Invisible?) Hand: Can Time Sequence Patterns of Success/Failure in Sports Be Modeled as Repeated Random Independent Trials?
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, October 2011
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0024532 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gur Yaari, Shmuel Eisenmann |
| Abstract |
The long lasting debate initiated by Gilovich, Vallone and Tversky in [Formula: see text] is revisited: does a "hot hand" phenomenon exist in sports? Hereby we come back to one of the cases analyzed by the original study, but with a much larger data set: all free throws taken during five regular seasons ([Formula: see text]) of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Evidence supporting the existence of the "hot hand" phenomenon is provided. However, while statistical traces of this phenomenon are observed in the data, an open question still remains: are these non random patterns a result of "success breeds success" and "failure breeds failure" mechanisms or simply "better" and "worse" periods? Although free throws data is not adequate to answer this question in a definite way, we speculate based on it, that the latter is the dominant cause behind the appearance of the "hot hand" phenomenon in the data. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 30 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 11 | 37% |
| Finland | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |
| China | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 14 | 47% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 21 | 70% |
| Scientists | 6 | 20% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 7% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 75 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 2 | 3% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Portugal | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 70 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 21% |
| Researcher | 12 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 12% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 7 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 8% |
| Other | 12 | 16% |
| Unknown | 13 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Sports and Recreations | 13 | 17% |
| Psychology | 9 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 7% |
| Computer Science | 5 | 7% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 19 | 25% |
| Unknown | 19 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 64. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 August 2023.
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