Definitely this.
There are probably college degrees much more difficult to take than my masters.

Think people miss point - getting a masters is fine, maybe gives you access to information that isn't readily available, buys you a year to figure out stuff.m, whatever

It's just when boasting about qualifications and debating in a 'no u, i'm superior' style has me scratching my head.

http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...clubs-u21-team

Aston Villa U21 3 - Aston Villa 0

This. If you've managed a master's and haven't work out that Socrates was right then you've kind of ****ed it.

Came in to post this. Kind of hope Garde just gives the kids a runout for the rest of the season. Could at least go down fighting rather than as a bunch of QPR-esq, overpaid, terrible journeymen.

Then again Socrates didn't live in the age of the Internet when what matters most is trying to impress a bunch of strangers.

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Could have been you Kev.

Maybe, although I still maintain that we could well have stayed up that season had Coyle not walked out when he did.

Feels like we're much better off now though.

What is the value to me (or anyone) of spending a significant amount of time writing a mini-essay on anything post ITT? I'm not interested in getting into debates - you just get some loltard making personal/straw man arguments in return, e.g.:

Speaking of personal insults, I mentioned my masters to defend myself against loltard comments that just because I wasn't ****ing over xG, that I wasn't bright enough to understand analytics. I agree it was cheap, but if you're going to make arguments based on the perceived lack of intelligence of another poster, don't cry about it when they defend themselves on that premise.

yeah heres the thing, lolelrazor

i do boldly assert that your education to date does not contain any element of understanding of probability distributions cos that stuff asserted is historically megalol and just fundamentally goes against any kind of nummeracy or scientific testing

i can assert purple alien ghosts who eat toast made from ether and it would be as testable as your momentum idea and contain as much signal

masters in psychology, get tricked by own cognitive biases

Imagine the narrative if they had. European football ruined Villa!

Naw, the momentum would have carried them through

And yet you're the one who thought just because "hot-hand" was disproved in basketball, that it was generalisable to all sports, all the time. FYI, when the debate threatened to get interesting.....

I guess you skipped the lecture on inductive reasoning? To recap, I can suggest momentum might be a thing (for example an amalgamation of form, team-spirit and collective efficacy) as I observe what I think might be a phenomenon, collect corroboratory evidence (statements from SAF, Wenger, Poch, Pep, etc), form a tentative hypothesis and develop a theory.

At that point, you can take a deductive approach and test that reasoning. But even a PhD wouldn't scratch the surface, so lol at trying to prove it to the internet.

widely held belief in momentum disproven in other sport is much more convincing evidence than the opinions of some football managers

just is

hahaha

did those manager quotes contain anything you couldn't get from talking to random fat blokes in pubs? if the answer is no then maybe they shouldn't be used as evidence for anything.

But then you still can't generalise. One guy throwing a ball at a hoop lots of times just proves that throwing a ball at a hoop lots of times is not affected by individual belief in ability to score - it does not disprove form, collective efficacy and team spirit affect the result of a 90 min match in football.

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Football gossip time:

Did anyone have a read of that stuff posted by RedIssue. No sources obv. Was retweeted by thread's favourite twitterer caley - basically hope all of it is true:

https://storify.com/MC_of_A/red-issu...orate-intrigue

I thought Fergie retired to spend more quality time with Cathy.

Red Issue are FOS most of the time. It's a paid access forum so they have to pretend to be itk to get customers.

That being said, a less dramatic/machiavellian version of this story has been doing the rounds for months, wouldn't surprise me if there's some politics at play behind the scenes the way the club is being run.

i cant understand why you're so confident that a momentum study in the context of one sport is utterly worthless when discussing momentum in another

is momentum an exclusively foot-based phenomenon

On a more positive note, our fearless leader has decided against rotation, so I'm cautiously optimistic we'll be able to halt the negative momentum from two successive losses and force a replay.

My only experience with momentum is through quizup.

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I understand his point about free throws or whatever it was being more easily to quantify than football. Kind of like how it's easy to produce a WAR figure in baseball, esp on the hitting side, but it's not in football.

But there seems to be no evidence suggesting that psychological momentum does exist (or makes much of a difference). When there's one side saying thing x (in this case momentum) doesn't have any effect and and one group saying that it does, the burden of proof is on the latter.

In German we call that concept Nullhypothese, not sure if there's an english word. Basically, assume difference in data is down to variance until you get evidence suggesting otherwise