Entries for Tag: 'basketball'
Anatomy of Basketball Expertise
The experiment went like this: 10 basketball players, 10 coaches and 10 sportswriters, plus a group of complete basketball novices watched a video clip of a player attempting a free throw. Not surprisingly, the players were significantly better at predicting whether or not the shot would go in. While they got it right more than two-thirds of the time, the non-playing experts (i.e., the coaches and writers) only got it right 44 percent of the time.Pretty cool stuff, but not all that surprising. Still, the idea that the empathy of the person watching can be that accurate, even through video (or video game maybe? or film?) is impressive.
Posted on Thu. September 04, 2008 by Ryan Guill #