Last edited by Primmy; 24th December 2010 at 06:08 AM.
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I suppose that if you are expecting to experience the placebo effect, you will....
What of them? There is a big difference between doing something out of superstition and paying $70 for dodgy sports science with no basis. If somebody happened to have a lucky Power Balance band, and they wore it for luck, then good on them, but most wear it because they genuinely believe it gives them greater core strength, when every single double-blind test has shown that it makes absolutely no difference.
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My point is that none of these devices (including powerbands) are shown to have any noticeable effect on performance, yet people are ready to line up and say they feel and perform better with them. That the powerband cast money and the others were free doesn't enter the equation; it's still all in the mind as to it's effect. If someone grabbed Ed Barlow in his time at Sydney and said "Hey kid, this thing helps prevent physical injury and pain, guaranteed!" and Barlow swallowed it, I would have no problem if it helped him bore into the packs instead of sitting off them. I have no objection to anyone thinking something does them benefit when physical science says it won't (provided it doesn't hurt them). At the end of the day, it's their money and they can spend it how they wish.
And even in the face of science, I'll bet anything that at least once on the 4th-5th days of the 1st Test each Australian Bowler had the thought cross their minds that the English Batsmen were wearing powerbands. I'm not prepared to discount it's use as a psychological weapon given the memory's trick of exacerbating certain responses.
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I think it's bad luck to be superstitious. Luckily I'm not, knock wood.
We can take it further and say all life is just an illusion. An object only exists because we believe it does. In other words, we create our own reality and are directly responsible for what happens to us. Focus on the negative and you will attract negative. That is why visualisation (on it's own) of winning money for example never works.
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BTW Does anyone know a link saying which scholarship players have been released by the Club.
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Yes, and my point is that if Barlow was to believe that "the holograms respond positively to the body's natural energy" (as they claim), then he's an idiot. Superstition is fine, nobody tries to justify those with science, but Powerband do, and people fall for it. It's bad.
As I said, if somebody had a "lucky" Powerband that they wore simply out of superstition, fine, but it's believing that they are a legitimate scientific piece of equipment that is the idiotic part.
Officially on the Reid and Sumner bandwagon!
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