The Sports Illustrated Cover Curse

Описание: Why do athletes decline in performance following an appearance on the cover of Sports Illustrated? Is there a curse? Or can this be explained with some simple statistics? This video focuses on the phenomenon behind the curse known as "Regression Toward the Mean."

Correction at 4:32: I use the phrase 'negative reinforcement' to describe the feedback given to the Israeli pilots. The correct term is 'punishment.' Negative reinforcement involves removing a negative stimulus in order to encourage behavior while punishment involves adding a negative change to an organism's environment after an undesirable behavior is performed.

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If you're interested in learning more, check out these links below:

AMAZING BOOK:
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-...

OTHER SOURCES:
Recent Sports Illustrated Curses:
http://www.si.com/sports-illustrated/...

2002 Sports Illustrated Article Investigating Curse: http://www.si.com/vault/2002/01/21/81...

Research Paper Explaning the Curse: http://www3.nd.edu/~apilking/Math1017...

Baseball Prospectus | Lies, Damned Lies: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/ar...

Regression to the mean: what it is and how to deal with it: http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content...

Effect of regression to the mean on decision making in health care: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

The effect of regression to the mean in epidemiologic and clinical studies:
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content...