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The Paradox of Talent: how Chance affects Success in Tennis Tournaments
Chiara Zappalá, Alessio Emanuele Biondo, Alessandro Pluchino +1
Individual sports competitions provide a natural setting for examining the relative importance of talent and luck/chance in achieving success. The belief that success is primarily…
Objective and perceived risk in seismic vulnerability assessment at urban scale
Eliana Fischer, Alessio Emanuele Biondo, Annalisa Greco +3
The assessment of seismic risk in urban areas with high seismicity is certainly one of the most important problems that territorial managers have to face. A reliable evaluation of…
Pairwise and high-order dependencies in the cryptocurrency trading network
Tomas Scagliarini, Giuseppe Pappalardo, Alessio Emanuele Biondo +3
In this paper we analyse the effects of information flows in cryptocurrency markets. We first define a cryptocurrency trading network, i.e. the network made using cryptocurrencies…
A generalised model for asymptotically-scale-free geographical networks
Nicola Cinardi, Andrea Rapisarda, Constantino Tsallis
We consider a generalised d-dimensional model for asymptotically-scale-free geographical networks. Central to many networks of this kind, when considering their growth in time, is…
Inequalities, chance and success in sport competitions: simulations vs empirical data
Pawel Sobkowicz, Robert H Frank, Alessio E Biondo +2
We present a new way of estimation of the role of chance in achieving success, by comparing the empirical data from 100-meter dash competitions (one of the sports disciplines with…
On the origins of extreme wealth inequality in the Talent vs Luck Model
Damien Challet, Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Emanuele Biondo +1
While wealth distribution in the world is highly skewed and heavy-tailed, human talent - as the majority of individual features - is normally distributed. In a recent computational…