{"product_id":"ben-cohen-hot-hand-the-9780062820730","title":"Hot Hand, The","description":"How can you\n\u003cbr\u003e\nmaximize success—and limit failure? Wall Street Journal reporter\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBen Cohen brilliantly investigates the mystery and science of streaks, from basketball to business.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"A feast\n\u003cbr\u003e\nfor anyone interested in the secrets of excellence.\" —Andre Agassi For decades, statisticians,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nsocial scientists, psychologists, and economists (among them Nobel Prize\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwinners) have spent massive amounts of precious time thinking about whether\n\u003cbr\u003e\nstreaks actually exist. After all, a substantial number of decisions that we\n\u003cbr\u003e\nmake in our everyday lives are quietly rooted in this one question: If\n\u003cbr\u003e\nsomething happened before, will it happen again? Is there such a thing as being\n\u003cbr\u003e\nin the zone? Can someone have a “hot hand”? Or is it simply a case of seeing\n\u003cbr\u003e\npatterns in randomness? Or, if streaks are possible, where can they be found? In The Hot Hand, Wall Street\n\u003cbr\u003e\nJournal reporter Ben Cohen offers an unfailingly entertaining and\n\u003cbr\u003e\nprovocative investigation into these questions. He begins with how a $35,000\n\u003cbr\u003e\nfine and a wild night in New York revived a debate about the existence of\n\u003cbr\u003e\nstreaks that was several generations in the making. We learn how the ability to\n\u003cbr\u003e\nrecognize and then bet against streaks turned a business school dropout named\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDavid Booth into a billionaire, and how the subconscious nature of\n\u003cbr\u003e\nstreak-related bias can make the difference between life and death for asylum\n\u003cbr\u003e\nseekers. We see how previously unrecognized streaks hidden amidst archival data\n\u003cbr\u003e\nhelped solve one of the most haunting mysteries of the twentieth century, the\n\u003cbr\u003e\ndisappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. Cohen also exposes how streak-related\n\u003cbr\u003e\nincentives can be manipulated, from the five-syllable word that helped break\n\u003cbr\u003e\narcade profit records to an arc of black paint that allowed Stephen Curry to\n\u003cbr\u003e\ntransform from future junior high coach into the greatest three-point shooter\n\u003cbr\u003e\nin NBA history. Crucially, Cohen also explores why false recognition of\n\u003cbr\u003e\nnonexistent streaks can have cataclysmic results, particularly if you are a\n\u003cbr\u003e\nsugar beet farmer or the sort of gambler who likes to switch to black on the\n\u003cbr\u003e\nninth spin of the roulette wheel.","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53416554856790,"sku":"9780062820730-G","price":10.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780062820730_1_ce2da861-493e-47c2-8bf7-f884895f52c6.jpg?v=1778083728","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/ben-cohen-hot-hand-the-9780062820730","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}