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Sidney Redner on Statistics and Everyday Life

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Are You Using a Statistical Approach to Identifying Winning Streaks?

In the united states, it's really clear that records are happening much more quickly now than they did, you know, 50 years ago or a hundred years ago. And certainly what people pay much more attention to is not looking at record statistics, but average statistics over long periods of time. So kind of adjacent to this in terms of thinking about taking enormous data sets and identifying statist a streaks in them. You've got the work that you did with sire on understanding baseball teams standings and streaks. It seems like you're applying a similar approach to actually determining whether or not this common apprehension that teams get on streaks has something to do with the team's abilities.

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