Johnston Kathryn, Baker Joseph
School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Front Psychol. 2020 Jan 10;10:2925. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02925. eCollection 2019.
Coaches are faced with the difficult task of identifying and selecting athletes to their team. Despite its widespread practice in sport, there is still much to learn about improving the identification and selection process. Evidence to date suggests selection decisions (at different competitive levels) can be inaccurate, bias driven, and sometimes even illogical. These mistakes are believed to contribute to "talent wastage," the effect of a coach's wrongful selection and/or deselection of an athlete to/from a team. Errors of this scale can lead to negative repercussions for all stakeholders involved and therefore deserve further exploration. It is the purpose of this paper to shed light on the potential factors influencing talent wastage and to illuminate possible psychological pitfalls when making decisions under uncertainty.
教练面临着识别和挑选运动员加入其团队这一艰巨任务。尽管在体育界这种做法很普遍，但在改进识别和挑选过程方面仍有许多需要学习的地方。迄今为止的证据表明，（在不同竞争水平上的）选拔决定可能不准确、受偏见驱动，有时甚至不合逻辑。人们认为这些错误会导致“人才浪费”，即教练错误地将运动员选入或排除出团队的后果。这种规模的错误可能会给所有相关利益者带来负面影响，因此值得进一步探讨。本文旨在阐明影响人才浪费的潜在因素，并揭示在不确定性情况下做决策时可能出现的心理陷阱。
