{"id":516903,"date":"2010-04-05T20:33:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T00:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/?p=8280"},"modified":"2010-04-05T20:33:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T00:33:52","slug":"ncbi-rofl-shocking-expose-eye-color-and-sports-performance-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/516903","title":{"rendered":"NCBI ROFL: Shocking expos\u00e9! Eye color and sports performance. | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8323\" title=\"horseshoes\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/files\/2010\/04\/horseshoes-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"horseshoes\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\"\/>Effects of eye color on frisbee toss<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Light-eyed individuals generally perform better at self-paced activities while dark-eyed individuals perform better at reactive activities. Using multiple regression it was found that dark-eyed students hit a target with a frisbee more times than did light-eyed students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-8280\"><\/span><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed?term=3399348\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8318\" title=\"frisbee\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/files\/2010\/04\/frisbee1.jpg\" alt=\"frisbee\" width=\"588\" height=\"212\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Relationship of eye color to winning horseshoe pitching contests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Light-eyed individuals perform some self-paced activities better while dark-eyed individuals perform reactive activities better. In horseshoe pitching contests there were, however, no differences on winning or losing between 21 light- and 25 dark-eyed men at a county fair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/2928035\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8282\" title=\"horseshoe\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/files\/2010\/04\/horseshoe.jpg\" alt=\"horseshoe\" width=\"549\" height=\"199\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: flickr\/<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sbeebe\/3717016253\/\">Sam Beebe\/Ecotrust<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Related content:<br \/>\nDiscoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2009\/10\/19\/blue-is-for-losers\/\">NCBI ROFL: Blue is for losers.<\/a><br \/>\nDiscoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/02\/03\/ncbi-rofl-beware-of-wii-tennis\/\">NCBI ROFL: Beware of Wii tennis.<\/a><br \/>\nDiscoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2009\/10\/13\/dizziness-in-discus-throwers-is-related-to-motion-sickness-generated-while-spinning\/\">NCBI ROFL: Dizziness in discus throwers is related to motion sickness generated while spinning.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Rf07vKQF_WVfDBD5uLuUl3q-1bA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Rf07vKQF_WVfDBD5uLuUl3q-1bA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Rf07vKQF_WVfDBD5uLuUl3q-1bA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Rf07vKQF_WVfDBD5uLuUl3q-1bA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/lB2ExeUyHyA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effects of eye color on frisbee toss &#8220;Light-eyed individuals generally perform better at self-paced activities while dark-eyed individuals perform better at reactive activities. Using multiple regression it was found that dark-eyed students hit a target with a frisbee more times than did light-eyed students.&#8221; Relationship of eye color to winning horseshoe pitching contests. &#8220;Light-eyed individuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}