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20. Leonard Koppett, “Carrying Statistics to Extremes,” Sporting News, February 11, 1978.
21. By some definitions, Koppett’s system would be judged to have failed in 1970; by others, to have passed. See CHANCE News 13.04, April 18, 2004–June 7, 2004, http://www.dartmouth.edu/-chance/chance_news/recent_news/chance_news_13.04.htm.
22. As touted on the Legg Mason Capital Management Web site, http://www.leggmasoncapmgmt.com/awards.htm.
23. Lisa Gibbs, “Miller: He Did It Again,” CNNMoney, January 11, 2004, http://money.cnn.com/2004/01/07/funds/ultimateguide_billmiller_0204.
24. Thomas R. Gilovich, Robert Vallone, and Amos Tversky, “The Hot Hand in Basketball: On the Misperception of Random Sequences,” Cognitive Psychology 17, no. 3 (July 1985): 295–314.
25. Purcell’s research is discussed in Gould, “The Streak of Streaks.”
26. Mark Hulbert, “Not All Stocks Are Created Equal,” www.MarketWatch.com, January 18, 2005, accessed March 2005 (site now discontinued).
27. Kunal Kapoor, “A Look at Who’s Chasing Bill Miller’s Streak,” Morningstar, December 30, 2004, http://www.morningstar.com.
28. Michael Mauboussin and Kristen Bartholdson, “On Streaks: Perception, Probability, and Skill,” Consilient Observer (Credit Suisse–First Boston) 2, no. 8 (April 22, 2003).
29. Merton Miller on “Trillion Dollar Bet,” NOVA, PBS broadcast, February 8, 2000.
30. R. D. Clarke, “An Application of the Poisson Distribution,” Journal of the Institute of Actuaries 72 (1946): 48.
31. Atul Gawande, “The Cancer Cluster Myth,” The New Yorker, February 28, 1998, pp. 34–37.
32. Ibid.
33. Bruno Bettelheim, “Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations,” Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 38 (1943): 417–52.
34. Curt P. Richter, “On the Phenomenon of Sudden Death in Animals and Man,” Psychosomatic Medicine 19 (1957): 191–98.
35. E. Stotland and A. Blumenthal, “The Reduction of Anxiety as a Result of the Expectation of Making a Choice,” Canadian Review of Psychology 18 (1964): 139–45.
36. Ellen Langer and Judith Rodin, “The Effects of Choice and Enhanced Personal Responsibility for the Aged: A Field Experiment in an Institutional Setting,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 34, no. 2 (1976): 191–98.
37. Ellen Langer and Judith Rodin, “Long-Term Effects of a Control-Relevant Intervention with the Institutionalized Aged,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 35, no. 12 (1977): 897–902.
38. L. B. Alloy and L. Y. Abramson, “Judgment of Contingency in Depressed and Nondepressed Students: Sadder but Wiser?” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 108, no. 4 (December 1979): 441–85.
39. Durgin, “The Tinkerbell Effect.”
40. Ellen Langer, “The Illusion of Control,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 32, no. 2 (1975): 311–28.
41. Ellen Langer and Jane Roth, “Heads I Win, Tails It’s Chance: The Illusion of Control as a Function of Outcomes in a Purely Chance Task,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 32, no. 6 (1975): 951–55.
42. Langer, “The Illusion of Control.”
43. Ibid., p. 311.
44. Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, “Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the Right Thing?” (working paper no. 05-066, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Mass., April 2005).
45. P. C. Wason, “Reasoning about a Rule,” Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 20 (1968): 273–81.
46. Francis Bacon, Novum Organon, trans. by P. Urbach and J. Gibson (Chicago: Open Court, 1994), p. 57 (originally published in 1620).
47. Charles G. Lord, Lee Ross, and Mark Lepper, “Biased Assimilation and Attitude Polarization: The Effects of Prior Theories on Subsequently Considered Evidence,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 37, no. 11 (1979):