Hot Hand Fallacy

One concept. Four tiers of command. Which do you speak?

Category: Cognition

Foundational Lexiconon a streak
Executive Parlancepattern overdetection
Scholarly Discoursepositive recency bias
Babel ZenithHot Hand Fallacy
Origin: Psychology

Etymology & Meaning

Believing streaks in random events will continue.

In the Boardroom

Assuming recent success predicts future success.

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