Question

It is fairly easy for coaches to put aside prejudices when selecting team members, determining the starting lineup, or assigning athletes to positions. true or false

Answer 1

Unfortunately, the answer is False.

Coaches can be influenced by various prejudices and pre-conceived biases that might lead them to choose the starting lineup based on arbitrary characteristics such as race and sexual orientation or by choosing team members who are closer to the coach instead of through their actual skills or potential.

This all depends on how the coach choose to use the method in determining the starting lineup – if it is through actual skill-based testing with clear measurements, it would create a starting lineup that is more objective than by choosing players based on facial characteristics, for example.

Answer 2

Answer:

False

Explanation:

Not only coaches, but all of us are affected by our own prejudices. For example, I think that most Chinese, Japanese and Koreans know martial arts because they teach martial arts at schools in China, Japan and Korea, but they are extremely bad at any other type of sport. I've never heard of a Korean, Japanese or Chinese national team winning at any professional sport, so I personally have the prejudice of believing that they are really bad at sports. On the other hand, I like to play football and I know that large guys are god for my team, so if I had to choose, I would hand pick the largest players.

Sometimes prejudices are not necessarily bad, and coaches that have several years of experience may seem to be unfair, but unless proven wrong, their prejudices are not based on crazy ideas. I'm 6' 3'' and weigh 220 pounds, and I play football and basketball. I would never choose a guy that's only 5 ft tall to play on my team. Maybe I'm wrong, but until proven wrong, I will follow my own experience and prejudice. And a coach has seen much more athletes or would be athletes, and probably knows better than me.