I think studies confirming conventional wisdom are often unfairly maligned as uselessly addressing the obvious. It makes sense to back up perception with data.

I think studies confirming conventional wisdom are often unfairly maligned as uselessly addressing the obvious. It makes sense to back up perception with data. However, the model of competitors feeling that silver=‘almost won’ and bronze=‘lucky to get a medal’ is by no means as novel as they claim. It’s strange to me that they present it as ‘new’ instead of a commonly held