| Recently psychologists and statisticians have mooted a surprising thesis: despite nearly universal beliefs to the contrary, there is no such thing as streak runs of success in sports; no one has ever been on a roll or had hot hands. In this paper I consider three different arguments to this skeptical conclusion and argue that all three are unsuccessful. I then defend the view that there is such a thing as hot hands in sports, that they are ubiquitous, and that players and observers are often right in identifying them. | "An Epistemologist Looks at the Hot Hand in Sports" Journal of the Philosophy of Sport volume 26, 1999 Pp. 79-87 |