Coin tosses are not necessarily random. You just have to get a machine to throw it with accuracy (the kind of accuracy that is difficult for people to achieve). http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1697475
I also do not see any evidence (based on the abstract) for whether there is a hot hand in volley ball. The article focuses on people's beliefs about the hot hand (which is quite strong). Marie **************************************************** Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology, Dickinson College Kaufman 168, Phone 717 245-1562 Office hours: Tuesday and Wednesday 2:00-3:30 http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html **************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Brandon, Paul K [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 10:25 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] JEP: The hot hand exists in volleyball Perci Diaconnis was reputed to be able to control manual coin tosses. On Oct 26, 2011, at 7:25 AM, John Kulig wrote: I like Stephen's artillery analogy. My point was even simpler, that we cannot rule out the possibility of a hot-hand on a priori grounds by assuming independence between successive shots the way that successive coin tosses are (tossed from a mechanical tosser; there MAY be ways to bias a human's coin toss); hence if an empirical demonstration is found, we wouldn't say "impossible" the way we would with coin tosses. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a4468797f&n=T&l=tips&o=13677 or send a blank email to leave-13677-13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a44687...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=13681 or send a blank email to leave-13681-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
