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| Title |
Life is unfair, and so are racing sports: some athletes can randomly benefit from alerting effects due to inconsistent starting procedures
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, October 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01618 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Edwin S. Dalmaijer, Beorn G. Nijenhuis, Stefan Van der Stigchel |
| Abstract |
The Olympics are the world's largest sporting events, attracting billions of viewers worldwide. Important parts are racing sports, such as running, swimming and speed skating. In these sports, athletes compete against each other in different heats to determine who wins the gold, or who is granted a place in the final. Of course, the gold goes to whoever is the most talented and has trained the hardest. Or does it? Here we argue that subtle differences between athletes' starts can bias the competition, and demonstrate this in the results of speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics. This bias could be removed by simple alterations to current starting procedures. The proposed change would greatly improve racing sport fairness, which currently suffers from an injustice that disadvantages not only athletes, but entire nations rooting for them. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 32 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 12 | 38% |
| Switzerland | 3 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 9% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |
| Georgia | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 11 | 34% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 29 | 91% |
| Scientists | 3 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 25 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 25 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 9 | 36% |
| Researcher | 6 | 24% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 8% |
| Other | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 2 | 8% |
| Unknown | 2 | 8% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Sports and Recreations | 5 | 20% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 16% |
| Psychology | 4 | 16% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 12% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 4 | 16% |
| Unknown | 4 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 72. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 August 2022.
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#601,864
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#1,245
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#9,049
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#23
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So far Altmetric has tracked 34,638 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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