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Super Rugby Semi-Final: Waratahs vs Highlanders
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<blockquote data-quote="RoosTah" data-source="post: 730920" data-attributes="member: 12207"><p>Well in both cases - yours and the "Sydney Media" (a broad church - the Tele is worlds apart from the Herald in terms of balance) - the accusations of the "rub of the green" one way or the other are classic examples of confirmation bias. You hate the Aussie teams, and so focus heavily on the calls that go our way, whilst our media loves out teams and so focuses heavily on those that don't. </p><p></p><p>As always, the truth tends to lie somewhere in the middle. In a lot of ways both the right wing media and guys like you remind of Ricky Stewart in the NRL - the man is utterly irate whenever even the slightest call goes against him and will bleat and bleat about it till blue in the face, but never seems to recognise when things go his way.</p><p></p><p>Sport is all about swings and round abouts; some times it goes your way, sometimes it doesn't. You just need to work hard enough and play well enough that the balance of probability remains in your favour regardless.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoosTah, post: 730920, member: 12207"] Well in both cases - yours and the "Sydney Media" (a broad church - the Tele is worlds apart from the Herald in terms of balance) - the accusations of the "rub of the green" one way or the other are classic examples of confirmation bias. You hate the Aussie teams, and so focus heavily on the calls that go our way, whilst our media loves out teams and so focuses heavily on those that don't. As always, the truth tends to lie somewhere in the middle. In a lot of ways both the right wing media and guys like you remind of Ricky Stewart in the NRL - the man is utterly irate whenever even the slightest call goes against him and will bleat and bleat about it till blue in the face, but never seems to recognise when things go his way. Sport is all about swings and round abouts; some times it goes your way, sometimes it doesn't. You just need to work hard enough and play well enough that the balance of probability remains in your favour regardless. [/QUOTE]
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