I’m midway through Leonard Mlodinow’s book “The Drunkard’s Walk“, which I highly recommend, and I stumbled across an interesting passage about sports that made me think about all the data that us graduate students depend on so heavily. The book details the prominent role of randomness in our lives, from the ‘luck’ of winning the lottery to the ‘skill’ required to ace an exam. The … Continue reading Sports and research: united by randomness