Can you judge a book by its cover?
You know the adage: you can't judge a book by its cover. But let's be real, I do it all the time, and you probably do too. You can think of books that confirm or disprove the old saying, but advancements in AI, image recognition algorithms, and crowdsourcing platforms allow us to go beyond anecdotes and analyze this in more detail: can you judge a book by its cover after all?
ReadThe hot hand fallacy fallacy fallacy
You've probably heard of the hot hand fallacy. In many areas, but most famously in basketball, people have long believed in the hot hand: a player who made their last couple shots was more likely to make the next one as well. But a famous 1985 study, analyzing some in-game NBA data and some experiments with Cornell basketball players, found that there was no correlation between previous shots and the outcome of the next one -- there was no hot hand.
Read52 things I learned in 2019
1. Until 2011(!), vehicles were only required to use average male-proportioned crash test dummies; when female-like dummies were added, many cars' safety ratings fell. [...]
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