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Brian Hastings's avatar

I took a psych class at Cornell from the guy who wrote the 1985 paper on the Hot Hand Fallacy. Separately, he gave a lecture on risk aversion and asked the class if anyone wanted to flip him for $20. I got him for the $20

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Sam Greenwood's avatar

I think it’s also funny that Amos Tversky whose partner Daniel Kahneman famously admitted he was wrong on several occasions co-authored the Hot Hand paper. Just because you are wrong doesn’t mean that you didn’t end up adding something to literature that ended up sharpening the analysis and tools of others in the future.

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