Job-analyzing athletics

Abstract

An apparatus approximating a large fall chronoscope was devised and used for the measurement of the time of the perception-choice-action complex. The times so secured for 112 university athletes were compared with coaches' ratings of efficiency in games (reliability .80), intelligence test scores, perception-action times, weight, and endurance measures; some of the latter were also available for 329 high school athletes. The correlation of perception-choice-action times with coaches' ratings was .56±.08 (.53 with intelligence constant, .66 combined with intelligence); that of intelligence with coaches' ratings was .41±.09 and that of the latter with perception-action times .37±.10; the other university coefficients were low or of doubtful significance. In one high school the correlation between ratings and intelligence was .39±.05, and in the others of the order .25±.06. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)