Women's Hoops Blog

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Friday, April 01, 2005

Gary Klein on what bracket pool strategies teach us about human psychology.
So what do we learn about ourselves through this national Rorschach test also known as March Madness? We use the same strategies in pools that we do at work. We reuse those strategies every year, even though most of us don't win. When we lose, we blame bad luck, and if we win, we attribute it to hard work or intelligence. Maybe these basketball pools aren't so different from the SAT after all.