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- From: tomf@ai.bunny.gte.com (Tom Fawcett)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Bowling with Gaea
- Message-ID: <TOMF.92Jul21135315@ai.bunny.gte.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 17:53:15 GMT
- Sender: news@ceylon.gte.com
- Reply-To: tomf@ai.gte.com
- Organization: GTE Laboratories Inc.
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- From a local newsgroup:
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- >Newsgroups: gtel.personal
- >Distribution: gtel
- >Organization: GTE Laboratories
- >
- >An interest of mine is studying relationships between human performance
- >and meteorological & geophysical variables. For example, I've recently
- >examined the GTE Labs bowling scores (51 people, 29 weeks of data) for
- >correlations with the planetary geomagnetic field, solar flux, and sunspot
- >number. (There are theoretical reasons for doing so.)
- >
- >The results showed significant correlations between performance and the
- >geomagnetic field. For men, the higher the geomagnetic field,
- >the higher the scores; women show the opposite effect. The correlation
- >for men's scores is about .5, i.e., 25% of the score variance is
- >accounted for by changes in the planetary geomagnetic field! (Similar
- >relationships have been reported for other individual performance sports.)
- >
-
- [Author's name deleted for protection from the grasping claws of
- talk.bizarre.]
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- Once again, that relationship is:
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- MEN: higher geomagnetic field --> higher bowling scores
- WOMEN: higher geomagnetic field --> lower bowling scores
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- GTE Labs is located in Waltham, MA (42d 22' 35" N, 71d 14' 10" W).
- Correct for your own location.
-
- -Tom
-