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by aleph_minus_one 684 days ago
> Plus, they are the worldwide foremost experts on competitive swimming. Definitely I would be more interested in their evaluation of a swimming pool rather than trust "research results" from the company that built the pool in question.

But they are very prone to psychological effects.

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Professional athletes are MORE superstitious than other people, and are prone to serious amounts of bias in how they attribute outcomes.