Thursday, February 17, 2011

A Comment on Coaching and Learning | The Wages of Wins Journal

A Comment on Coaching and Learning | The Wages of Wins Journal

Yelling at people who make mistakes is not likely to be an effective reaction. Improvement observed after yelling is probably just regression to the mean. Furthermore, yelling – as Henry notes – likely imposes additional costs on the player. One also suspects that at some point, players just learn how to tune out the yelling (something I have asked student-athletes about in the past).

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