Stephen Hawking Crunches the Numbers to Predict England World Cup Win
 

Stephen Hawking Crunches the Numbers to Predict England World Cup Win
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Among his other numerous attributes, Stephen Hawking is also apparently a big soccer fan.

In this ad for Irish bookmaker Paddy Power, Hawking **tes that as a theoretical physicist, he is "marginally more qualified to make predictions than Paul the Octopus." Hawking then employs general logistic regression modeling to offer the best conditions for an England World Cup win: England should use a 4-3-3 formation, hope for a European referee and a 3:00 kick-off. Hawking ack**wledges, though, that when it comes to penalty kicks, "We couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo."

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