Talk:Sports Illustrated cover jinx

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Opening heading[edit]

I am interested in where the original research is that relates SI cover athletes to regression towards the mean. Anyone know anything more about this? --Kbobk (talk) 02:49, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmation Bias?[edit]

In addition to a (fairly) rigorous statistical treatment of the jinx, the cited article "The Cover That No One Would Pose for: Is the SI Jinx for Real?", quotes a sports psychologist with a plausible (I think) explanation of how being on the cover could help to cause bad performances: "This changing perception causes many athletes to feel pressure and have a much harder time achieving their ideal performance." In any case, I think the claim that it's simply an example of confirmation bias would benefit from a citation. Originalname37 (Talk?) 15:38, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:15, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx → Sports Illustrated cover jinx – The words "cover jinx" should not be capitalized, per WP:CAPS Trivialist (talk) 22:48, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Agree with nom. Should this request be successful, please update the caps in the lead sentence accordingly. Jenks24 (talk) 17:19, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This is arguably a proper name, a specific jinx, so maybe it should be capped per our sources. (Not sure about that.) It should also be hyphenated, Sports Illustrated-cover jinx, as it's a jinx of being on an SI cover, not a cover jinx of SI. (Those two meanings are pronounced differently.) — kwami (talk) 21:50, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Mild support: The only place I can find it used as a proper noun (not in a headline, where the casing makes it impossible to tell) is here. –CWenger (^ • @) 16:11, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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OR?[edit]

While the first part of the article cites sources, the extensive list of "incidents" is largely unverified and is likely OR. Anyone who has any kind of negative event after being on the cover would qualify for this list. Yoninah (talk) 00:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Most of these claims on this dubious article are unsourced. However, as Wikipedia is so totally America centric I guess nobody cares. USA, ALL THE WAY! Sirhissofloxley (talk)