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Jooney Posted 14 years ago
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She’d previously demonstrated that for successful tennis players and field-goal kickers, the ball or goal looks larger than it does to players not enjoying a hot streak. Success, for these athletes, had changed how they perceived the field of action.
Dr. Witt wondered, could you turn that situation around and induce a performance-enhancing effect? Could you, by making the ball or goal seem larger, make people perform better? Or, by making it look smaller, would you cause people to do worse?
To test the question, she turned to golf.
So she set up a putting green, with a standard-size golf hole at the top of a slight incline. In the ceiling, she mounted a projector that beamed a series of dark circles around the hole, surrounding it like beads on a necklace. In one image, these projected circles were smaller than the actual hole. In the other, they were larger.
Dr. Witt then had 36 volunteers view the hole from a few feet away, with and without the encircling projections, and “draw” on a computer screen their perception of the hole’s size using a digital drawing program.
Most of them perceived the hole to be larger than it actually was if smaller circles surrounded it, and smaller than life if it had bigger circles all around it.
When the volunteers subsequently putted, they landed more attempts when the hole was surrounded by little circles and seemed oversize to them. They missed more often when putting to the hole that, girded by larger circles, appeared shrunken.
“This finding was in some ways quite unexpected,” Dr. Witt says. It might seem obvious that a bigger-seeming target would invite success. But the reverse easily could be true, she says. A wider-seeming target could prompt wider shots. Reality would have betrayed you in that case, and you’d miss.
When the volunteers subsequently putted, they landed more attempts when the hole was surrounded by little circles and seemed oversize to them.
Q1) Does this mean they made more attempts at the hole with smaller circles around it than the hole with bigger circles around it?
They missed more often when putting to the hole that, girded by larger circles, appeared shrunken.
I'm not entirely sure what this means.
Q2) Which of the following is true?
1. Given that they made the same number of attempts at each hole, they made less successful putts in the case of the hole surrounded by bigger circles.
2. The total number of putts missed on the hole with bigger circles were larger.
p.s. Please be aware I have more questions coming!
Thank you.
She’d previously demonstrated that for successful tennis players and field-goal kickers, the ball or goal looks larger than it does to players not enjoying a hot streak. Success, for these athletes, had changed how they perceived the field of action.
Dr. Witt wondered, could you turn that situation around and induce a performance-enhancing effect? Could you, by making the ball or goal seem larger, make people perform better? Or, by making it look smaller, would you cause people to do worse?
To test the question, she turned to golf.
So she set up a putting green, with a standard-size golf hole at the top of a slight incline. In the ceiling, she mounted a projector that beamed a series of dark circles around the hole, surrounding it like beads on a necklace. In one image, these projected circles were smaller than the actual hole. In the other, they were larger.
Dr. Witt then had 36 volunteers view the hole from a few feet away, with and without the encircling projections, and “draw” on a computer screen their perception of the hole’s size using a digital drawing program.
Most of them perceived the hole to be larger than it actually was if smaller circles surrounded it, and smaller than life if it had bigger circles all around it.
When the volunteers subsequently putted, they landed more attempts when the hole was surrounded by little circles and seemed oversize to them. They missed more often when putting to the hole that, girded by larger circles, appeared shrunken.
“This finding was in some ways quite unexpected,” Dr. Witt says. It might seem obvious that a bigger-seeming target would invite success. But the reverse easily could be true, she says. A wider-seeming target could prompt wider shots. Reality would have betrayed you in that case, and you’d miss.
When the volunteers subsequently putted, they landed more attempts when the hole was surrounded by little circles and seemed oversize to them.
Q1) Does this mean they made more attempts at the hole with smaller circles around it than the hole with bigger circles around it?
They missed more often when putting to the hole that, girded by larger circles, appeared shrunken.
I'm not entirely sure what this means.
Q2) Which of the following is true?
1. Given that they made the same number of attempts at each hole, they made less successful putts in the case of the hole surrounded by bigger circles.
2. The total number of putts missed on the hole with bigger circles were larger.
p.s. Please be aware I have more questions coming!
Thank you.
Top answer
1-- They sank the ball more often when there were smaller circles. The number of attempts was the same in both cases. 2-- Both are correct.
- 1-- They sank the ball more often when there were smaller circles.
- The number of attempts was the same in both cases.
- 2-- Both are correct.
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1-- They sank the ball more often when there were smaller circles. The number of attempts was the same in both cases.
2-- Both are correct.
2-- Both are correct.
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Thank you for the reply, Mr. M.
Let me get this straight first. "landed more attempts"="made more successful putts/same number of attempts"?
Let me get this straight first. "landed more attempts"="made more successful putts/same number of attempts"?
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This all comes back to the first paragraph, where it says that star athletes supposedly see a bigger hole or ball than normal people do. That is, to David Beckham, a soccer goal apparently looks the size of the Titanic.
Witt decided to run tests on this, to see it this apparent phenomenon has sports science application, that is, if ordinary athletes can be psychologically tricked into
Witt decided to run tests on this, to see it this apparent phenomenon has sports science application, that is, if ordinary athletes can be psychologically tricked into
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"landed more attempts"="made more successful putts/same number of attempts"?-- Yes—or made some set number of successful putts in fewer attempts.
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