re: An interesting tidbit about officiating

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officials just hate the orange and blue.

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There has actually been scientific research done on the effect of color on perceptions in competition. I saw this on some science show on TV a few years ago.

Researchers used olympic boxing matches over several different olympic years. In the olympics, one boxer would wear blue and the other would wear red. The researchers altered the videos so they could randomly make either boxer appear to be wearing red or blue, then had experienced boxing judges judge the matches. There was a statistically significant preference for red over blue, regardless of which boxer was randomly assigned the red or the blue. In some cases, where the same boxer in the same match was shown in two different videos to two different sets of judges, shown in red in one video and in blue in the other, he would be judged the winner when in red and the loser when in blue.