{"id":9876,"date":"2015-01-30T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=9876"},"modified":"2015-01-30T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T14:06:12","slug":"super-bowl-athletes-are-scientists-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/01\/30\/super-bowl-athletes-are-scientists-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl Athletes Are Scientists At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote up another piece about football for the Conversation, this time drawing on material from <a href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/?p=11\">Eureka<\/a>, explaining <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/super-bowl-athletes-are-scientists-at-work-36698\">how great football players are using scientific thinking<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSeattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman gets called a lot of things. He calls himself the greatest cornerback in the NFL (and Seattle fans tend to agree). Sportswriters and some other players call him a loudmouth and a showboater. Fans of other teams call him a lot of things that shouldn\u2019t see print (even on the internet). One thing you\u2019re not likely to hear anyone on ESPN call Sherman, though, is \u201cscientist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And yet, an elite professional athlete like Richard Sherman is, in fact, extremely adept at doing science. Not the white-lab-coat, equations-on-a-blackboard sort of science, but the far older and universal process of observing, making and testing models of the universe.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wrote something similar last year, but with more words and less detail. This goes on to make a specific science analogy, between the rapidly repeated process of testing and refining models you see in sports and the rapid repetition of test and measurement used for precision timekeeping. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect this one to generate as much buzz as my previous piece over there, because it doesn&#8217;t directly ruffle as many feathers. But it&#8217;s a new audience for this stuff, and I&#8217;m pretty happy with how the piece came out. So, go over there and read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote up another piece about football for the Conversation, this time drawing on material from Eureka, explaining how great football players are using scientific thinking: Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman gets called a lot of things. He calls himself the greatest cornerback in the NFL (and Seattle fans tend to agree). Sportswriters and some&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/01\/30\/super-bowl-athletes-are-scientists-at-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Super Bowl Athletes Are Scientists At Work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,676,680,19,31,265,33,7,37,565,132,11,27,667],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-cold-atoms-physics","category-eureka","category-experiment","category-football","category-in_the_media","category-in_the_news","category-physics","category-pop_culture","category-precision_measurement","category-publicity","category-science","category-sports","category-time","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}