Author: Patrick Patterson

The $1 million Grade I Santa Anita Derby is scheduled as race eight of 12 at Santa Anita on Saturday, April 9 at 3:30 p.m. PST. 10 contenders will vie for a trip to the …

 Today we are going to take a very brief look at the hot-hand fallacy and the gambler’s fallacy. Picture this: You are at your local racetrack or OTB observing a day of races as they …

The term “cheerleader effect” was coined in 2008 by Barney Stinson, a character played by Neil Patrick Harris on the hit television series “How I Met Your Mother.” This cognitive bias emerged from a scene …

English statesman, scientist and philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626) is best known as a pioneering advocate of the scientific method. Unsurprisingly, he did not conform to the superstitions of his day. “It is true that may …