Last edited by Big Al; 30th November 2010 at 10:51 AM.
..And the Swans are the Premiers...The Ultimate Team...The Ultimate Warriors. They have overcome the highly fancied Hawks in brilliant style. Sydney the 2012 Premiers - Gerard Whately ABC
Here it is Again! - Huddo SEN
From a couple of weeks ago...
?Corrective Advertisement
Power Balance wristbands
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Of course. The Placebo effect, the power of suggestion, it's all very real stuff. But believing they'll work in the first place is not a particularly glowing endorsement of a person's intelligence. Then again, when you've got the money, might as well spend it.
I saw a lot of wristwatches, and maybe LRT had one as well but it was difficult to tell. Jack's was the only one that definitely looked like power balance.
Officially on the Reid and Sumner bandwagon!
Well, I don't know about the first sentence, but agree with the second. Maybe more like the fan rituals (to sing or not sing the song before the game, etc.) and how we think they influence the outcome of the game. They don't change the outcome but they change our enjoyment/engagement level. A wristband (or any amount of positive thinking) won't make Kizza better, stronger, faster, but the fact he bought it (especially given his reputation for being "careful" with his cash) means he's focussed on being better, stronger, faster, so no harm either.
If he wears the wristband and believes in it so much he stops training, let's see how effective it is...
Superman still wears Brett Kirk Pyjamas
A friend of mine is a senior immunologist working with NASA and the Australian Antarctic Division and from what he's told me the placebo effect is remarkable. Not only that it works but that is can even work if you tell people that it's a placebo. Give people pills and tell them these are the real thing and these are placebos and both groups react as if the pills were all genuine. So, in the case of the Powerband, you could sell it to someone telling them that it does nothing and it will have the effect for which it's sold. That's just weird.
So what of the numerous people in competitions who have lucky socks, lucky undies, dress left-to-right, don't talk, do talk, get dressed at an exact time, and any number of other seemingly insignificant things that sportspeople do in the belief that it will in some way give them the edge? The belief that something works can give even the strongest mind a jolt, it has nothing to do with natural intelligence.
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Last edited by Big Al; 30th November 2010 at 04:13 PM.
..And the Swans are the Premiers...The Ultimate Team...The Ultimate Warriors. They have overcome the highly fancied Hawks in brilliant style. Sydney the 2012 Premiers - Gerard Whately ABC
Here it is Again! - Huddo SEN
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