In a recent paper (see link below), our colleague Adam Sanjurjo (U. Alicante) and Joshua Miller (U. Bocconi) have re-opened the debate on the hot hand, giving a cold-shower to the traditional results on its non-existence. Their paper has been #1 downloaded paper for several weeks at SSRN, and included in SSRN’s Top Papers of 2015.
http://andrewgelman.com/2015/
07/09/hey-guess-what-there- really-is-a-hot-hand/
This generated a discussion by Mathematicians about Miller and Sanjurjo’s work:
John Allen Paulos:
https://twitter.com/
JohnAllenPaulos/status/ 624753503454543872
Steven Strogatz a Mathematician from Cornell, in two conversations:
You may acess the paper here:
Miller J. and A. Sajurjo (2015): “Surprised by the Gambler’s and Hot Hand Fallacies? A Truth in the Law of Small Numbers.” SSRN, 2015.
August (2014)
- Andrew Gelman‘s blog:
- http://andrewgelman.com/2014/08/12/understanding-hot-hand-myth-hot-hand-time/ (please, see comments)
July (2015)
- Andrew Gelman‘s Blog:
- http://andrewgelman.com/2015/07/09/hey-guess-what-there-really-is-a-hot-hand/ (please, see comments)
- Cultural Cognition Project at Yale:
- Chance News:
August (2015)
- The Hot Hand in Sports blog:
- http://thehothand.blogspot.it/2015/08/new-study-of-nba-three-point-contest.html (please, see comments)
- A response to the Vox and Economist article
- Yosi Rinott & Bar-Hillel Comment:
- Significance Magazine
- Phil Birnbaum:
- http://blog.philbirnbaum.com/2015/08/can-hot-hand-turn-average-players-into.html
- A follow up on the Significance magazine article.
September (2015)
- Andrew Gelman‘s Blog:
- http://andrewgelman.com/2015/09/30/hot-hand-explanation-again/
- A response to the WSJ article
-
Nada es Gratis (Spain’s most influential economics blog), by Pedro Rey Biel:
October (2015)
- Neurologicablog:
- Godel’s Lost Letter, Mathematicians & Computers Scientists RJLipton & KWRegan:
- Association for Psychological Science:
- Mind Your Decisions (Popular Math Puzzle blog):
- Steve Landsburg
- Singular Values
- True Economics
- Gli State Generali
- SSRN
November (2015)
- American Mathematical Society:
- Press People:
- The Perception of Action Podcast:
- Antonello Lecis Blog:
- Martin Rebas
- Lo Campus Diari
- Full Basket
- Ivoox Podcast
- SSRN
December (2015)
- “Coolest article of the yr—hot hands down!” Cultural Cognition Project at Yale:
- Dan Gusfield (Computer Scientist at UCD):
- John Allen Paulos (popular mathematician)
- Steven Strogatz (prominent mathematician from Cornell)
- Mohamed A. El-Erian (former PIMCO head)
- Tim Harford
- John Preskill (Caltech theoretical physicist)
- Eric Topol (prominent physician)
- Noah Smith (econ blogger)
- Joël Van der Weele:

Adam Sanjurjo

Joshua Miller
- New Yorker
- New York Times 1 and 2
- Wall Street Journal
- The Economist
- VOX
- Psychology Today
- Science Daily
- Tech Times
- Sports Illustrated (with radio interview)
- NPR (with radio interview)
- Cadena Ser (with radio interview)
- Tampa Bay Times
- Youtube
- Wall Street Journal – Asia
- United News of India
- Basketnet.it
- Corriere del Sera (1) and (2)
- La Repubblica
- diario.mx
- Valuewalk