The Illusion of Aesthetics
Basketball is a unique sport — beautiful in its artistic potential, but also scientific because the objective is quite simple: to win. Yet our aesthetics bias can often prevent us from objectively measuring the impact of players on both sides of the spectrum, overrating those with more "beautiful" games and underrating those with less sexy impact. Listen to our podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... https://open.spotify.com/show/3f7vm4X... Follow us on social media: IG/TikTok: NerdSesh Twitter: Nerd_Sesh

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