Comments on: This post is dressed in blue

This post is dressed in blue

daksya — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:10:16 -0800

To invoke Fast and the Furious: It's not how you play the game that matters, it's the color of your uniform

By: xmutex

xmutex — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:47:59 -0800

And, of course, the pink locker room at the University of Iowa.

By: kyleg

kyleg — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:47:17 -0800

And Tiger's red shirt (bottom of page)

By: jeblis

jeblis — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:08:10 -0800

pink locker room: Critics say the use of pink demeans women, perpetuates offensive stereotypes about women and homosexuality Whoa big stretch there. All the pink locker room is doing is playing on the individuals own internal perceptions. The very fact that the "Critics" assume pink is associated with women/homosexuals is hypocritical.

By: you're only jung once

you're only jung once — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:44:21 -0800

This is an oldie (but a goodie) If you want to test this red=aggression theory then stress your friends by .. 1. Tell them they have to answer all your questions immediately - no hesitation even if the format of questions changes. 2. Make them do simple mental arithmetic on a continuous basis. So "1 plus 2 minus 3 plus 5 plus 4 divided by 3 times 4" etc.... 3. Speed this up until they get f_cked off and do it long enough to augment the f_ucked off effect. 4. Then ask 'Favourite colour? Name a tool?" Most of the time the answers will be "red" and "hammer" - The quasi-psychological explanation I use is red associates with aggression and they want to now hit me on the head with a hammer. For best effect write these words on a bit of a paper and produce them Paul Daniels' style at the end. But as my analyst says "whatever dude".

By: jeblis

jeblis — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:00:27 -0800

Blue: Depression, coldness, obscenity, technology, ice, winter

By: jeblis

jeblis — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:03:13 -0800

Cool. neat time shift. I'm posting before my orginal comment. Kinda like that extra hour you get to drink in the bars tonight.

By: selfnoise

selfnoise — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 04:31:13 -0800

The perfect antidote to this article, of course, is watching an Arizona Cardinals game.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 06:08:11 -0800

wearing a colored uniform can give sportsmen a competitive edge Right, that's why the Yankees have done so poorly over the decades.

By: joe lisboa

joe lisboa — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 06:59:53 -0800

Per jeblis' wiki link: conservatism is a positive connotation of blue but radicalism is a negative connotation of red? Karl Rove has commandered the spectrum!11!!

By: goatdog

goatdog — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 07:28:22 -0800

The research was previously discussed here.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 07:31:10 -0800

languagehat writes "that's why the Yankees have done so poorly over the decades." The study isn't saying Red uniforms will prevail over other colours always. It's saying that there may be an advantage to the red wearer when closely matched opponents are assigned red randomly. IE: Everything else being equal the red player may have a very slight advantage. The Yankees large fan base have allowed them to field superior teams from the beginning accounting for their better than average success. Besides which baseball isn't usually thought of as a combat sport.

By: j-urb

j-urb — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 08:11:12 -0800

Leave the Iowa locker room! It is too funny. People have skin that's way too thin sometimes.

By: Danf

Danf — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 08:18:29 -0800

Yeah the White Sox beat, in order the Red Sox, the Angels, and the Astros. .all of which have some amount of RED in their unis. And they won, arguably, because of their more aggressive game.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 08:41:46 -0800

Metafilter: You'll be craving red and a hammer.

By: joe lisboa

joe lisboa — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:00:41 -0800

Next you'll be telling me that "red and a hammer" has radical connotations, too.

By: graventy

graventy — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:19:36 -0800

I guess this finally answers the whole Red vs. Blue thing.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:17:22 -0800

This explains why no one will pass to me when I play skyclad.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:17:47 -0800

(It's probably my red hammer)

By: wumpus

wumpus — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:09:29 -0800

I can't find a way to access the pubmed peer-reviewed article. Does anyone know if this is actually statistically significant?

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:18:25 -0800

I guess once we fix the performancing-enhancing drugs issue at the Olympics, we can set in on the performance-enhancing colours issue. I foresee everyone having to be naked, painted battleship grey.

By: joe lisboa

joe lisboa — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:38:48 -0800

So that's why the original olympians competed in the nude.