Can watching (or not watching) games impact the result?
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DitchMarner
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Some modern thinkers literally believe this.
They think that people create reality rather than interpreting it.
It kind of goes back to Descartes' "I think; therefore, I am." Your thinking tells you that you exist. Who's the say the rest of the world does?
Realistically, my brain is hooked up to some sort of simulator operated by a combination of Habs and Bruins fans who live in a higher reality and can't get enough of seeing me suffer through years and years of seeing the Leafs fall short of winning the Cup.
KovalchukFistPump
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13 year old me would say yes, but adult me realizes sports are entertainment and that's it. Although turning off Game 7 in 2001 only led to one goal scores for us.
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Speak for yourself, I do one-armed pullups and grow palm trees.
No
However I believe the actions of anyone in the stadium can have a Hugh impact on the game with the butterfly effect.
For example, If I do something as small as buying a beer, then maybe I make someone else have to wait a minute extra in line, which makes that person late to get to their seat, which makes the goalie happen to notice that person's jersey as they go to their seats, which makes the goalie stand an inch further to the left, which effects the next shot on goal bounce into the net instead of off the post.
It's plausible that something like you not watching a game can influence a game, but for the butterfly ripple to make it to the arena it would take a lot things lining up just right.
However I believe the actions of anyone in the stadium can have a Hugh impact on the game with the butterfly effect.
For example, If I do something as small as buying a beer, then maybe I make someone else have to wait a minute extra in line, which makes that person late to get to their seat, which makes the goalie happen to notice that person's jersey as they go to their seats, which makes the goalie stand an inch further to the left, which effects the next shot on goal bounce into the net instead of off the post.
It's plausible that something like you not watching a game can influence a game, but for the butterfly ripple to make it to the arena it would take a lot things lining up just right.
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That's a hyperbolic interpretation of that lineage of modern thinkers. It makes for good sci-fi, but the question they were addressing was more certainty, an epistemological issue, than existence, an ontological one. You can read it that way which is fun, more prominent in Berkeley.
D Wakaluk
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Of course it does. There's a hungamazillion of little jinxes and spells going on per game.
At the moment hockey scientists and priests are baffled by the ultimate jinx shield the Buffalo cult has summoned
At the moment hockey scientists and priests are baffled by the ultimate jinx shield the Buffalo cult has summoned
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Can you watch 100 games and then also not watch 100 games and let me know what the numbers are? Science!
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D Wakaluk
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Forgot to add; I hate the announcer jinx and the let-the-meaningless-interview-go-on-forever-during-game-unti-someone-scores jinx.
These two are way too powerful and overused
These two are way too powerful and overused
Only in the playoffs
Jumptheshark
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Are you asking a team may win or lose because people are watching or not watching?
They do not care about how many people are watching from bars or their homes
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GREATEST THREAD EVER !!!!!
Well done, OP. @Kshahdoo
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I have always felt, if I do not watch Canada in BIG games, they will win.
Well done, OP. @Kshahdoo
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I have always felt, if I do not watch Canada in BIG games, they will win.
That's what crossed my mind.
dr robbie
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This thread pisses me off because of the movie "The Butterfly Effect" with Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart because in the movie he can go back in time where they clearly establish that going back in time changes the future, ie. the name, but in one scene he is prison and goes back in time as a kid and stabs himself in his hands performing a pseudo-stigmata on himself but when he goes to the present he is still in prison where nothing changes except now he has marks on his hand like Jesus but it breaks the entire rules set out in the universe as everything would have changed such as him being put in a some type of institution as a child and shouldn't be back in prison:
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SmoggyTwinkles
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You are either 12 year old me or current me on mushrooms. Stop it.
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To quote a Texas poetaster, it ain't any more unusual to be born twice than it is to be born once.
Wait. I already commented "no", but I'm changing my answer to "yes".
During nationally televised games, there's the added media attention and the knowledge that a large swath of the hockey community is likely tuning in.
So, yes for that reason.
During nationally televised games, there's the added media attention and the knowledge that a large swath of the hockey community is likely tuning in.
So, yes for that reason.
SmoggyTwinkles
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I wore the same underwear for a week and a half and after the Leafs loss tonight I realized, it's time for a change.
I have fresh undies on (I'm being honest and serious here)
Will it affect my day tomorrow in a positive way? I just don't know these answers.
There's only one way to find out!
I have fresh undies on (I'm being honest and serious here)
Will it affect my day tomorrow in a positive way? I just don't know these answers.
There's only one way to find out!
