How much did they blur? I expect that in order to blur gender id they blurred too much. The speed difference is huge that alone will change the quality of the game but if legs are blurred the footspeed may not be perceivable. A better experiment would be to put female body images over males and ask participants to rate the quality.
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How can one obscure gender of a player in a video?
They showed video to people who never watched a football match?
It's a little heavy, but I found the findings interesting.
I saw a really cool video related to this idea just the other day. Will find it then edit into this comment.
EDIT - https://youtu.be/QVNZRHIZVL8
I mean, what is this experiment meant to prove? At the end of the day all that matters in on the pitch and in most cases everytime a women's team goes up against a blokes, they get smashed.
This isn't to say that women's football shouldn't receive funding and have a chance to grow itself as a sport in the same way as the blokes game. Given enough time and training I'm sure we may see the female superstars coming up that can take on the blokes and give them a run for their money.
I mean, what is this experiment meant to prove?
This is showing that the average person cannot discern the quality differences between the men's and women's game unless you play the men against the women. Yes, the men are bigger, stronger, and faster than the women. But to the average person, they won't be able to perceive those differences if they only watch women play women. The level of the women's game has become high enough (accuracy of passing, tactical play, defensive strategy, etc) that normal people perceive it as worth watching.
Ok. Isn't that already proved by the fact that audiences are growing and more money is coming into the women's game anyway?
Maybe, but that could just be indicative of a more open society where more women outside of US/Brazil/Canada/Australia are growing up idolizing women sports stars instead of TV/movie stars, or where men are learning from a younger age to respect women as more than just sex objects. There could be any number of social reasons for the growth of the game.
I get your point, though. This study probably was not needed (most academic studies are superfluous), but it is another pointer that the women's game is quality entertainment.
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