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'Players have an intuition about where the ball is going to go without having to look at and analyse the flight of the ball.' This is pretty easily observable

'Players have an intuition about where the ball is going to go without having to look at and analyse the flight of the ball.' This is pretty easily observable with baseball players as well. After playing thousands of games while standing in the same (relative) place on the field I/they can anticipate where the ball is going to go based on a variety of variables in real-time... instantly.

hacker_9 6y ago
50% of the time it works 100% of the time
huffmsa 6y ago
Almost all of the "amazing" things the brain does are basically continuously refined predictive branch execution. Which is why practice is important. You're essentially strengthening certain neural pathways with continuous exposure to certain inputs. But this strength also makes us susceptible to misdirection and slight of hand.
emsy 6y ago
In the book “Thinking fast and Slow” the Baseball example is given for a learned intuition. The ball is too fast for batters to react so they learn to anticipate the trajectory of the ball from the way the pitcher throws. When they let professionals players play against a female softball player with lower throwing speed their intuition was off and they missed the ball more often than against a male professional player.
ajuc 6y ago
There was a festival of jugglers in my city and they taught me to juggle in like 15 minutes, I was amazed it's so easy (the basic 3-ball juggling, and just for a monute or two, the more difficult juggling is HARD and I had to train later to be able to keep juggling forever). There is a very easy trick - you look forward in the distance keeping the balls in peripheral vision and there's 2 automatic reactions you have to develop: 1. when the ball going up is at the top of the curve - throw another ball up 2. when a falling ball goes out of your peripheral vision - do the "oh shit something's falling let's catch it" routine with the hand that has less balls in it. Hands learn very quickly how to move to catch the balls that leave the peripheral vision "by itself" basing on the trajectory you've seen. It's actually harder to juggle when you look at the balls directly, and it's impossible when you think about it and try to do the moves consciously because you're too slow. It was mindblowing to me that it's easier to catch a ball when you don't look at it.

hacker_9 6y ago

50% of the time it works 100% of the time

huffmsa 6y ago

Almost all of the "amazing" things the brain does are basically continuously refined predictive branch execution. Which is why practice is important. You're essentially strengthening certain neural pathways with continuous exposure to certain inputs. But this strength also makes us susceptible to misdirection and slight of hand.

emsy 6y ago

In the book “Thinking fast and Slow” the Baseball example is given for a learned intuition. The ball is too fast for batters to react so they learn to anticipate the trajectory of the ball from the way the pitcher throws. When they let professionals players play against a female softball player with lower throwing speed their intuition was off and they missed the ball more often than against a male professional player.

ajuc 6y ago

There was a festival of jugglers in my city and they taught me to juggle in like 15 minutes, I was amazed it's so easy (the basic 3-ball juggling, and just for a monute or two, the more difficult juggling is HARD and I had to train later to be able to keep juggling forever). There is a very easy trick - you look forward in the distance keeping the balls in peripheral vision and there's 2 automatic reactions you have to develop: 1. when the ball going up is at the top of the curve - throw another ball up 2. when a falling ball goes out of your peripheral vision - do the "oh shit something's falling let's catch it" routine with the hand that has less balls in it. Hands learn very quickly how to move to catch the balls that leave the peripheral vision "by itself" basing on the trajectory you've seen. It's actually harder to juggle when you look at the balls directly, and it's impossible when you think about it and try to do the moves consciously because you're too slow. It was mindblowing to me that it's easier to catch a ball when you don't look at it.