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When “normal” feels like winning (or losing) – Danny Kahneman on regression to the mean

by Stuart Patience
27th December 201926th December 2019
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Danny [Kahneman] was then helping the Israeli Air Force to train fighter pilots. He’d noticed that the instructors believed that, in teaching men to fly… Read More »When “normal” feels like winning (or losing) – Danny Kahneman on regression to the mean

Dropping catches

by Stuart Patience
10th March 20199th March 2019

In Moneyball Michael Lewis describes how baseball manager Billy Beane – following the work of sabermetrician Bill James – used statistics to upturn perceptions about… Read More »Dropping catches