Penn Soccer gets scientific

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Playing a varsity sport and keeping up with classes at Penn isn't enough for some Penn soccer players, apparently.

The Quakers participated in a Penn study on Referees' calls, which found that due to our propensity to left-to-right action, such as reading and writing, we find right-to left things abnormal and thus more likely to be a foul.

You can read a blurb on the study in this NYTimes Blog.

The interesting part that the Times' writer points out: the results would likely be opposite in a Hebrew or Arabic speaking country. (Not sure how this would translate into traditional Japanese, which is read in columns....)

The Times' writer does not point out how this finding adds a whole new level to the pregame coin toss.