Jeffrey Herman Zwiebel (born December 12, 1965) is an American economist and the James C. Van Horne Professor of Finance at the

Stanford Graduate School of Business The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective business schoo ...

. A study he co-authored in 2013, along with Brett Green of the

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, reported that the "

hot-hand fallacy The "hot hand" (also known as the "hot hand phenomenon" or "hot hand fallacy") is a phenomenon, previously considered a cognitive social bias, that a person who experiences a successful outcome has a greater chance of success in further attempts. ...

" did not appear to be a fallacy after all. Specifically, they reported that an average-power batter in

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on a "hot streak" was about as likely to hit a home run as a good-power batter would normally be.

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