Two sample proportion z amos tversky and thomas gilovich in their study on the “hot hand” in basketball found that in a random sample of games, larry bird hit a second free throw on 48 of 53 attempts after the first free throw was missed, and hit a second free thrown in 251 of 285 attempts after the first free throw was made. is there sufficient evidence to say that the probability that bird will make a second free throw is different depending on whether or not he made the first throw? hippocampus statistics & probability