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EXPLOITING THE MAIN BIASES IN AMERICAN SOCCER BETTING MARKETS.
No full textIn this paper the author will discuss the main inefficiencies in the 4 American major leagues of football (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and USA), proposing a betting scheme, which outperforms the market with consistency over the past 9 Seasons (from 2012/2013 up to 2020/2021). Analysing the available data it was discovered how “Home advantage bias” and “Championship favourite advantage bias” play a big role in these championships and, by betting only on events, in which they were predicted favourable betting odds, it was possible to obtain an average return of +6.87% over 567 matches, using average bookmakers coefficients available on the market. The results are particularly significant, since, at least to our knowledge, there were no similar strategies available, which could guarantee such a big positive outcome for the leagues presented
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Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Contemporary Asian Reading of a Seminal Text
Get PDFLaw schools are peculiar places occupied by, dependent on, associated with, and exerting influence on a myriad of institutions and stakeholders. From law students’ efforts at mastering the allusive skill of legal reasoning to the challenges both tenured and untenured academic staff face in the neoliberalist higher education model where the legal profession and the consumers of the law school product exert increasing – and sometimes even impossible – demands, law schools and its populace have always been contested, hierarchical and image-conscious spaces. Indeed, as Ralph Shain noted in the Journal of Ideology in 2012, “[a]nyone who has suffered through law school would be grateful to have a good polemic against the institution”. This article offers such a polemic against legal education in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Over a period of four years, a selection of postgraduate law students from one of the (three) higher education institutions responsible for legal education and training in Hong Kong were asked to reflect upon their legal studies and future roles as legal professionals with reference to the 1983 self-published pamphlet by Duncan Kennedy, entitled “Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System”. Kennedy’s essay offered a critical analysis of the role of legal education in American social life at that time, and the manner in which it reproduced hierarchy in law, legal education, the legal profession, as well as in society generally. The narratives informing this article show that almost 40 years subsequent the publication of Kennedy’s text, and in a jurisdiction with an altogether different social context and facing its own political turmoil and civil rights’ aspirations, many parallels can be drawn with what Kennedy had observed in 1983.
Part I of this article sets the scene with a detailed overview of the legal education and training landscape of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region from a legal-historical perspective to date. The discussion and analysis then turn to the narratives of Hong Kong law students, offering a window into their experiences as (unintended) participants in the hierarchies of law and legal education in Hong Kong. Much more, however, can be gleaned from these narratives than just how these students perceive their present legal studies and future roles as legal professionals in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. These narratives also offer a critical reflection on Hong Kong’s colonial past and present status as a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China under the principle of “one country two systems” (Part II). Culture-specific values impacting on these students’ legal studies and career decisions are revealed (Part III), and troublesome shortcomings in the current legal education and training landscape vis-à-vis the legal professional fraternity and political and socio-economic reality of Hong Kong are laid bare (Part IV). Much like Kennedy’s 1983 essay failed to bring about any real change in how law schools go about their business as cogs in the apparatus of social hierarchy, the narratives informing this article also conclude on a rather sombre and futile note. Be that as it may. At least their voices have been heard and the seemingly inescapable power struggles noted. This too is an important function of the law and legal discourse
Beneficial Ownership of the Family Home: A Comparative Study of English and Australian Constructive Trusts
Get PDFThe aim of this article is to review and critically analyse the English law relating to common intention constructive trusts in the context of the family home. In particular, it seeks to show how the English courts have addressed the question of establishing and quantifying the parties’ beneficial shares in both sole and joint ownership cases. The writers also seek to compare the English approach with the way in which such questions have been answered by the Australian courts. The primary purpose of this comparison is to consider what lessons (if any) can be learnt from the Australian model
The Value of a Core Research Module in the Medical Curriculum
Get PDFIntroduction: Application of research methods to medical research is a key skill that students should acquire during medical school. The value of a mandatory research module for students in terms of their understanding of medical research and the academic outputs that arise from the module are yet to be evaluated, especially compared to research undertaken through different avenues.
Method: Sheffield Medical Students were invited to complete a questionnaire on their thoughts of the research module, any academic outputs that arose from the module and any further research that they had undertaken outside the module. Ordinal regression analysis was used to assess for differences between groups’ answers to the Likert scales.
Results: 101 students answered the questionnaire. 72.3% of students agreed that the module increased their knowledge of medical research, while fewer students agreed that it increased their interest in research and desire to undertake further research. Undergraduates agreed that the module increased their knowledge more than postgraduates (p = 0.048). There were no differences between the type of research project undertaken and students’ opinions of the module. Students gained more academic outputs, i.e. journal submissions and conference presentations, from research undertaken outside of the module.
Discussion: This research found that students’ main benefit from the module was increased knowledge of medical research, in agreement with previous studies. Limitations of the study included gaining no information on respondents’ age and previous research experience, which may have had an impact on their opinion of the research module
An Effective Approach for Exploiting the Inefficiencies of the Italian Football Betting Market
No full textIn this paper, the author analyses the main inefficiencies of the Italian Serie-A betting market: in particular, using previous findings on the favourite-long shot bias, the team scoring home advantage and the league winner scoring advantage, a strategy aimed to outperform the market will be presented. By testing the betting scheme over the past 19 seasons, it was possible to obtain an average return per bet of 9.31%, with 16 of the 19 years resulting in positive financial returns. In order to verify the computations, different betting odds databases were used. The results obtained are particularly significant for two reasons: firstly all computations were performed on market average coefficients, leaving on the table an additional 3-4% of profit, which could be obtained by using best coefficients among bookmakers and secondly compared to market benchmarks and other betting strategies, the net profit is considerably higher. In particular other three strategies were used as a benchmark: the first one uses the favourite-long shot bias, the second one the Home factor and the third one the league favourite team advantage. All these betting schemes performed more poorly, with the second best strategy scoring on average 6% worse. After analysing possible future improvements, in the final section the author describes how the findings of this paper may be applied to other betting markets, such as different football leagues, basketball, hockey and tennis
The Learning Skills Curriculum: An Eight-year Evaluation of a Complex Intervention
Get PDFLearning to Learn is a field of educational theory and practice that aims to help children become more effective learners. The field has grown significantly through-out the last 40 years and a number of approaches have been implemented on a large scale in the UK as well as internationally. Research into metacognition and self-reg-ulation suggests that Learning to Learn programmes should help boost academic attainment. However, to date, large-scale evaluations of Learning to Learn initia-tives have found no clear impact on academic attainment. This paper presents the findings of an eight-year case study of Learning Skills, a new approach to Learning to Learn that was developed at a secondary school in the south of England, and eval-uated over eight years (2009 to 2017). Using an interventional design used widely in medicine and other fields, Learning Skills reconceptualises Learning to Learn as a ‘complex intervention’ comprised of multiple areas of evidence-informed practice. The rationale for complex interventions is that the ‘marginal gains’ to arise from each component stack up and interact to yield a larger effect size overall. This eval-uation found that Learning Skills led to significant gains in subject learning, with accelerated gains among pupils from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Further qualitative data analyses indicate a positive causal relationship between Learning Skills and academic attainment. As well as evaluating the impact of a promising new approach to Learning to Learn, this study generates new knowledge about the implementation and evaluation of complex interventions in education
A Shift in Systems: (Co-)conceptualising Pedagogy in an Era of Continuous Complexity
Get PDFAs a result of complex co-constructive entanglements of contemporary lived-ex-perience, this paper develops ideas from posthumanist and material perspectives on education, that recognise, unpack and analyse the particular dynamic, co-con-structive nature of the postdigital entanglements of technology with the epistemic and ontological development of students (Bozalek, Braidotti, Shefer and Zemby-las, 2018). Drawing from Haraway’s idea of symbiogenesis, (2016), this paper suggests that a critical facet of contemporary pedagogy requires an understanding of the key skill of poiesis, to render visible the entangled ontology of the contem-porary postdigital adolescent to better inform appropriate pedagogic developments
