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The Red Team Wins
Voltageaav writes "Recent studies indicate that in both First Person Shooters and even athletic competitions, wearing red gives you an advantage. It's speculated that this distracts the other team slightly due to the psychological aspect of people turning red when angry." Of course the Blue Team loses — as evidence I submit the history of the Detroit Lions.
"Da red wunz go fasta!"
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
Goldrush is an asymmetric map where the blue team attacks and the red team defends.
So, to look at what this study actually tells us, we can use some simple statistics to determine what range of probabilities we're 99.999% sure the true probability of red winning lies within. (This is example #3: "The coin is tossed...").
And the answer is, given 1,347 trials (games) with a 55% red-wins outcome, the true value lies somewhere between 49% and 61% (inclusive).
So we're 99.999% sure that the results have not ruled out the null hypothesis: that wearing red has no effect at all.
There may be a real effect here, but more work is needed! Until then, Occam's razor selects the simpler explanation: there's no effect.
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As an aside, people also turn red when they are embarrassed or drunk, so wouldn't the psychological effect cancel itself out?"
Funny...I remember when I bought a red Corvette...that everyone told me not to get red, because it would make your insurance higher. I'd heard that all my life.
I called State Farm and asked them if color mattered as to my insurance rate. Nope.
What matters is your driving record, your sex, the price of the car (repairs), and it seems these days strangely enough...your credit rating?!?!
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Also the Montreal Canadians who have the biggest Stanley Cup dynasty of all time wear red too, although they haven't done so good lately.
In Sweden all exit and emergency signs have a green background with white text.
This is true, and of course the asmmetric maps are a bad place to look for color disparity, I just meant to be funny. However Well, Granary, and Badlands are symmetric maps, and all three of those have red winning slightly more often than blue.
I think it has more to do with the fact that the general color palette is reddish orange, and one team wears reddish orange, while the other wears blueish black. This is a pretty good study on how well camouflage actually works. They do make it a little easier to see the snipahs than in real life (TF2 snipahs wear a black vest and black pants) vs. real life snipers who are usually wearing a blanket covered in shrubbery. But overall it looks like camouflage grants you a 5% increase in Win.
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I'm guessing quod=what, erat=was-to-have-been, demonstrandum=demonstrated. So the Q. isn't quite D.E. (with emphasis on the E., I guess), as it's still to-be-shown.
You can mod me -1 Nitpicking People Called Romanes They Go The House now.
I have pants, I just refuse to wear them. ever.
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May I submit as evidence the Champions League Final? Manchester United (Red) vs. Chelsea (Blue)
Latin nit-pick: quod = that which erat = was demonstrandum = a-to-be-demonstrated-thing The construction is the "passive periphrastic".