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Science Fiction » alt.startrek » Sorta OT: Redshirts!
| Sorta OT: Redshirts! [message #40540] |
Mo, 23 Mai 2005 07:44 |
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So the makes 'em winners, but does nothing to stop those security guys from
getting killed......
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Qa'pla
Kweeg
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05 /18/AR2005051801829.html
If winning is everything, British anthropologists have some advice: Wear
red.
Their survey of four sports at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens shows
competitors were more likely to win their contests if they wore red uniforms
or red body armour.
"Across a range of sports, we find that wearing red is consistently
associated with a higher probability of winning," report Russell A. Hill and
Robert A. Barton of the University of Durham in England. Their findings are
in today's issue of the journal Nature.
Red coloration is associated with aggression in many animals. Often it is
sexually selected so that scarlet markings signal male dominance.
Just think of the red stripes on the scowling face of the male mandrill,
Africa's largest monkey. But red is not exclusively a male trait. The female
black widow spider is venomous and displays a menacing red dot on her
abdomen.
Similarly, the colour's effect also may subconsciously intimidate opponents
in athletic contests, especially when the athletes are equal in skill and
strength, the researchers suggest.
In their survey, the anthropologists analyzed the results of four one-on-one
contact sports at the Summer Games: boxing, taekwondo, Greco-Roman wrestling
and freestyle wrestling.
In those events, the athletes were randomly assigned red protective gear and
other sportswear.
Athletes wearing red gear won more often in 16 of 21 rounds of competition
in all four events.
The effect was the same regardless of weight classes, too: 19 of 29 classes
had more red winners, and only four rounds had more blue winners.
The red effect also might come into play in team sports.
A preliminary analysis of the Euro 2004 soccer tournament found that five
teams scored more goals and won more often when they wore shirts that were
predominantly red, as opposed to blue or white jerseys.
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| Re: Sorta OT: Redshirts! [message #40719 ] |
Mi, 25 Mai 2005 03:36 |
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it has not been established if th ecolor effect is boosting the wearers
or somehow inhibiting the performance of the opposition. I would say
that intuitively, it must be that red would affect the opposite team
players, my theory goes like this:
Red is the color of blood, of fire, of raw meat, thus of great danger,
things to avoid contact with. Millions of years of imprinting as we
evolved has hard-wired these associations into our collective
subconscious. While the conscious mind can see this color and dismiss
it's warning value within the context of whatever else is known and
seen, the lizard and ape parts of our minds still automatically get a
little scared by red. Not enough to override what our minds are asking
us to do at the moment, but maybe *just* enough to slow our reation
time a bit? And that would be all that's needed for these statistical
results to come out the way they do.
Now, re-read this while listening to Ken Nordine;-)
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| Re: Sorta OT: Redshirts! [message #40738 ] |
Mi, 25 Mai 2005 07:49 |
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"unknown redshirt" <msu1049321 [at] aol.com> wrote in message
news:1116984981.178026.18880 [at] g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> it has not been established if th ecolor effect is boosting the wearers
> or somehow inhibiting the performance of the opposition. I would say
> that intuitively, it must be that red would affect the opposite team
> players, my theory goes like this:
>
> Red is the color of blood, of fire, of raw meat, thus of great danger,
> things to avoid contact with. Millions of years of imprinting as we
> evolved has hard-wired these associations into our collective
> subconscious. While the conscious mind can see this color and dismiss
> it's warning value within the context of whatever else is known and
> seen, the lizard and ape parts of our minds still automatically get a
> little scared by red. Not enough to override what our minds are asking
> us to do at the moment, but maybe *just* enough to slow our reation
> time a bit? And that would be all that's needed for these statistical
> results to come out the way they do.
I would concur with that....
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Qa'pla
Kweeg
http://members.shaw.ca/iksbloodoath
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| Re: Sorta OT: Redshirts! [message #47548 ] |
Sa, 28 Mai 2005 03:27 |
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"Kweeg" <kweeg [at] nospam.shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:_lUke.1476496$6l.866943 [at] pd7tw2no...
> "unknown redshirt" <msu1049321 [at] aol.com> wrote in message
> news:1116984981.178026.18880 [at] g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> it has not been established if th ecolor effect is boosting the wearers
>> or somehow inhibiting the performance of the opposition. I would say
>> that intuitively, it must be that red would affect the opposite team
>> players, my theory goes like this:
>>
>> Red is the color of blood, of fire, of raw meat, thus of great danger,
>> things to avoid contact with. Millions of years of imprinting as we
>> evolved has hard-wired these associations into our collective
>> subconscious. While the conscious mind can see this color and dismiss
>> it's warning value within the context of whatever else is known and
>> seen, the lizard and ape parts of our minds still automatically get a
>> little scared by red. Not enough to override what our minds are asking
>> us to do at the moment, but maybe *just* enough to slow our reation
>> time a bit? And that would be all that's needed for these statistical
>> results to come out the way they do.
>
> I would concur with that....
>
> --
>
> Qa'pla
> Kweeg
> http://members.shaw.ca/iksbloodoath
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if that were true, then how come the top dog currently in Nascar drives
BLUE car and the socalled hier apparrent driveing the RED car is
so far back in points they have to pump air to him?
it's all BS statistics which can be twisted to prove anything you want
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| Re: Sorta OT: Redshirts! [message #47564 ] |
So, 29 Mai 2005 00:23 |
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"Vetteguy" <Vetteguy [at] driving.com> wrote in message
news:sA%le.40574$CR5.475 [at] bignews1.bellsouth.net...
> if that were true, then how come the top dog currently in Nascar drives
> BLUE car and the socalled hier apparrent driveing the RED car is
> so far back in points they have to pump air to him?
I would think that the colour of a car traveling in excess of hundred miles
per hour in the same direction is a little different than and has a little
less physiological impact for other drivers than a team of footballers has
on their opposition. The article said "British anthropologists have some
advice: Wear red," not paint your car red.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05 /18/AR2005051801829.html
"In their survey, the anthropologists analyzed the results of four
one-on-one contact sports at the Summer Games: boxing, taekwondo,
Greco-Roman wrestling
and freestyle wrestling." and "The red effect also might come into play in
team sports.A preliminary analysis of the Euro 2004 soccer tournament found
that five
teams scored more goals and won more often when they wore shirts that were
predominantly red, as opposed to blue or white jerseys."
> it's all BS statistics which can be twisted to prove anything you want
Ya, OK thanks, good to know there is experts in human behaviour, like
yourself, posting here, to keep us all honest. Are any of your articles or
theories available anywhere in print or on the web?
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Qa'pla
Kweeg
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