Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:48:22 +0200 From: the_dojang-request@martialartsresource.net Subject: The_Dojang digest, Vol 15 #211 - 4 msgs X-Mailer: Mailman v2.0.13.cisto1 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Errors-To: the_dojang-admin@martialartsresource.net X-BeenThere: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13.cisto1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The Internet's premier discussion forum on Korean Martial Arts. 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See the Korean Martial Arts (KMA) FAQ and the online search engine for back issues of The_Dojang at http://MartialArtsResource.com Pil Seung! Today's Topics: 1. How The Color Red Affects A Referee's Judgment (Ray) 2. Displaying flags (Mike Donahoo) 3. Re: Displaying flags (Samurai Latino) 4. Re: Displaying flags (Nathan Miller) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: Ray To: The_Dojang Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:09:55 -0700 Subject: [The_Dojang] How The Color Red Affects A Referee's Judgment Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Red All Over: How The Color Red Affects A Referee's Judgment ScienceDaily (Aug. 8, 2008) — Many sports teams select their uniforms based on the mascot, city or country they are representing, not on a referee’s preference or bias. But a new study has found that choosing the color red for a uniform in competitive sports can actually affect the referee’s split-second decision-making ability and even promote a scoring bias. Psychologists Norbert Hagemann, Bernd Strauss and Jan Leibing from the University of Munster specifically found that referees tended to assign more points to tae kwon do competitors dressed in red than those dressed in blue. The researchers presented 42 experienced tae kwon do referees with videos of blue- and red-clad competitors sparring. The two sets of clips were identical except that the colors were reversed in the second set, making the red athlete appear to be wearing blue and vice versa. The referees were then asked to score the performance of each competitor, red or blue, after each video. The psychologists found that when the competitors appeared to be wearing red, they were awarded an average of 13% more points than the blue competitors, even though every athlete was presented in both colors at some point. What’s more, points awarded seemed to increase after the blue athlete was digitally transformed into a red athlete and decrease when the red competitor changed to blue. The findings, which appear in the August 2008 issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggest that referees may hold a split-second bias toward red-clad athletes when the competitors are evenly matched in skill: “Referees’ decisions will ‘tip the scales’ when athletes are relatively well- matched but have relatively small influence when one is clearly superior,” wrote the authors. "Although there is a need for further research, including research on the effects of different colors, our results suggest a need to change the rules or support referees by providing electronic decision-making aids in those sports in which this color bias may be a problem,” they concluded. --__--__-- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:24:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Donahoo To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Subject: [The_Dojang] Displaying flags Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net How do you display the American flag in your schools?  In the past 3 weeks I have had 2 people walk in off the street and tell me that the flags in our school were hung incorrectly.  Both turned out to be wrong.  Has anyone else had this happen?  I Googled "how to display the American flag" and found a dozen sites that say to hang the flag as we do - hung vertically, with the field of stars to the observers left in the center wall of the dojang directly across from the doors entering the school.  For those on the list in the military or law enforcement, is that not correct?   Mike Donahoo --__--__-- Message: 3 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:13:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Samurai Latino Subject: Re: [The_Dojang] Displaying flags To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net You are correct, "vertically, with the field of stars to the observers left." Sincerely, Rafael Amill   --- On Fri, 8/8/08, Mike Donahoo wrote:   From: Mike Donahoo Subject: [The_Dojang] Displaying flags To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 4:24 PM How do you display the American flag in your schools?  In the past 3 weeks I have had 2 people walk in off the street and tell me that the flags in our school were hung incorrectly.  Both turned out to be wrong.  Has anyone else had this happen?  I Googled "how to display the American flag" and found a dozen sites that say to hang the flag as we do - hung vertically, with the field of stars to the observers left in the center wall of the dojang directly across from the doors entering the school.  For those on the list in the military or law enforcement, is that not correct?   Mike Donahoo _______________________________________________ The_Dojang mailing list, 2,400 members The_Dojang@martialartsresource.net Copyright 1994-2008: Ray Terry and Martial Arts Resource Standard disclaimers apply Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://the-dojang.net --__--__-- Message: 4 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:41:27 -0500 From: "Nathan Miller" To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Subject: Re: [The_Dojang] Displaying flags Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net You are correct. Most people get confused on this because they are taught "the flag should be to the right," or "the union should be to the right," etc, but don't realize this is the FLAG'S OWN right. >From US Code Section 7: i) When displayed either horizontally or vertically against a wall, the union should be uppermost and to the flag's own right, that is, to the observer's left. When displayed in a window, the flag should be displayed in the same way, with the union or blue field to the left of the observer in the street. Reference: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&docid=Cite:+4USC7 On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Mike Donahoo wrote: > How do you display the American flag in your schools? In the past 3 weeks I > have had 2 people walk in off the street and tell me that the flags in our > school were hung incorrectly. Both turned out to be wrong. Has anyone else > had this happen? I Googled "how to display the American flag" and found a > dozen sites that say to hang the flag as we do - hung vertically, with the > field of stars to the observers left in the center wall of the dojang directly > across from the doors entering the school. For those on the list in the > military or law enforcement, is that not correct? > > Mike Donahoo > _______________________________________________ > The_Dojang mailing list, 2,400 members > The_Dojang@martialartsresource.net > Copyright 1994-2008: Ray Terry and Martial Arts Resource > Standard disclaimers apply > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://the-dojang.net --__--__-- _______________________________________________ The_Dojang mailing list The_Dojang@martialartsresource.net http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/the_dojang Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://the-dojang.net Old digest issues @ ftp://ftp.martialartsresource.com/pub/the_dojang Copyright 1994-2008: Ray Terry and http://MartialArtsResource.com Standard disclaimers apply. Remember September 11. End of The_Dojang Digest