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Old 16th April 2008, 04:13   #165 (permalink)
Wibble
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Originally Posted by kietotheworld View Post
It's actually been definitely proven in a detailed study that right footed penalty takers score more proportionately than left footed players. This study was conducted across all the major footballing countries in Europe, as well as Brazil and Argentina, and across the top 2 divisions of each league.
Where is this study? The only one I know about is Chiaporri, Levitt and Groseclose (2002) which was published in some economics journal. The stats were rubbish and has so little power as to be useless. They also failed to do do things like ANOVA's which might have teased some details out, although give the sample sizes and methodology I doubt it.
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