The best way for goalies to defend against penalty kicks during a football match is to stay relatively still, but they almost always dive. Why? Action bias. We simply can’t stand doing nothing in the face of a challenge, even when it’s the smartest course of action.
What football goalies do wrong can teach us how to be better at solving problems
Video by Sluggish
17 November 2015
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