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Gender information and perceived quality: An experiment with professional soccer performance (www.tandfonline.com)

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Whether one looks at revenue, investment or coverage, men’s sports do better than women’s. Many assume that absolute differences in quality of athletic performance are the driving force. However, the existence of stereotypes should alert us to another possibility: gender information might influence perceived quality. We perform an experiment in which 613 participants viewed clips of elite female and male soccer players. In the control group, participants evaluated unmodified videos where the gender of the players is clear to see. In the treatment group, participants evaluated the same videos but with gender obscured by blurring.
Using a regression analysis, we find that participants rate men’s videos higher – but only when they know they are watching men. When blurring obscures the gender, ratings for female and male athletes do not differ.
We discuss implications for research and the sports industry.

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[–] CombatWombatEsq 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The moral of the story is: you should be watching the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, on from now until August 20th!

[–] positiveWHAT 0 points 2 years ago

Nah, the corrupt FIFA can go fuck themselves.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would imagine that to be the case when an average participant is observing the footage. Now have a team of men play a team of women, blur it enough to be ambiguous, and see what team is playing higher quality football.

[–] positiveWHAT 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, there's a reason for why competition is gender based; pitting the genders against each other, men will outclass at speed and shooting power.
The study shows that the quality of the same clips are percieved differently when ruling for gender.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I understand, what I'm saying is thats a poor way to judge the quality differences between men and womens football.

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