When They Want Our Opinion, They’ll Give it to Us Confirmation bias: a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true.  As a result, people gather evidence and recall information from memory selectively, and interpret it in a biased way. The biases appear...
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We Were Curious We were curious, so we put together a series of charts looking at the NCAA Tournament performance in the 13-year period from 1998 to 2010, both home and away, of six top teams: Penn State, Stanford, Nebraska, USC, Washington, and Florida. (We would have included Texas, but its website statistics only go back...
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    Penn State’s 2010 Women’s Volleyball season was capped by a so-called ”Four-Peat” – a fourth consecutive NCAA Championship.  Today it was announced that former (that will take some getting used to) Penn State star 6-5 Opp. Blair Brown has given Penn State a “Three-Peat” for the Honda Sports Award for Women’s Volleyball, by winning the 2010-11 Award for Volleyball, following Megan Hodge (2009) and  Nicole Fawcett (2008). ...
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Here’s the unofficial, unconfirmed, subject to change roster for the 2011 Penn State Women’s Volleyball team. The table is sortable. To reorder a column, click on the arrows at the top of the column.
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Photo by Paul R. Kucher IV Overview Back in November, we looked at the recruiting classes from 2004 to 2009 that were signed by Florida, Nebraska, Penn State, Stanford, Texas, and USC.  To look at that post, Click Here. We chose those programs because they all are among the premier programs in the country, year-in and year-out, and chose that...
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