Posted on 11/01/2023 12:12:00 PM PDT by devane617
During the 2020–2021 season of the National Basketball Association (NBA), which took place during Donald Trump's failed bid at re-election, immigrant players for teams in regions with stronger far-right political sentiments were more likely to make game errors—highlighting the possible detrimental effects of such views on immigrant workplace performance.
Benjamin Korman and Florian Kunze of the University of Konstanz, Germany, presented these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on November 1.
Prior research has shown that, in regions with strong support for far-right political parties, immigrants face more prejudice and discrimination. Evidence also suggests that being exposed to anti-immigrant propaganda may hinder immigrants' performance on various tasks, and exposure to negative stereotypes about a certain group of people might boost the performance of people outside that group.
On the basis of such prior research and related psychological theory, Korman and colleagues propose that living in areas with far-right views might increase immigrants' awareness of the possibility of being judged negatively as immigrants, disrupting their attention and causing them to make more workplace errors.
To investigate that hypothesis, they analyzed data on all 522 US-based NBA players' game performance following the failed 2020 election bid of polarizing far-right politician Donald Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Now how am I supposed to sleep at night?!
Sigh.
count sheep
Nuts always start thrashing about when they’re caught. Woke is dying quickly so expect more and more of this crap.
Glass of Scotch and a benzodiazepine…
Phys.org?!!
What unholy steaming pile of stuff is this.
That’s on a physics site? It’s literally the rantings of crazy people, almost impossibly stupid.
So these smart people really do view professional sports as a slave plantation.
Luka Doncic who was born in Slovenia and Nikola Jokic who was born in Serbia are maybe the two best players in the NBA, both are from Eastern Europe, Jokic especially is fun to watch, he looks like a dufus who is kind of fat who is unathletic and all he does is dominate and won an NBA title last year.
The next best player and some would argue he’s the best player is Giannis Antetokounmpo who is a Greek born in Nigeria.
This article is nonsense.
I don’t watch sports of any kind, so I don’t give a rat’s a$$ about any of them.
Maybe they just suck.
A real leftist goofball wrote this trash.
Is this person for real?
Election took play on 11/8, which is what, 10 games into the 20-21 NBA season?
And the NBA MVP the last 3 years have been foreign players.
Joel Embiid, who won MVP last year, is Cameroonian.
The whole thing is a joke.
Were these results backed up and validated by using studies of NHL and Baseball?
Or, are there just not enough of a representation of immigrants as a percentage in those sports?
One thing this shows is that STEM has been poisoned by wokeness same as everything else in academia.
Wut?
I literally felt my brain cells dying as I read this.
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