17. The Basketball Experiment

Adrian and Austin discuss weather or not America spends too much time and resources on researching statistics for sports instead of more important things like economics. We look at how basketball is a perfect experiment for determining stats and how economics just has too many variables. Finally, we round out this episode by reflection on the impact Stephen Hawking had on the world of physics and Austin gives us an update on the situation with Russia. Here is the link to the Trevor Noah skit on sports in America which inspired this episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r-464KzH_k

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