Does CD affect alliance selections?

[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by smurfgirl

Ultimately, it is robot performance etc. that makes teams decide on alliance partners- what you see at a given competition is what affects your choices.

I agree that teams pick based on the other teams performance at the competition. My point is saying that how we percieve a team, or about thier performace, is affected by our preconceptions (what is said here, history of team...). So, unless a team makes selections based on only objective data, these preconceptions may play a major role.

Also, these are not concious things that people are always thinking about and aware of. In the study of the speaker, the listeners did not conciously think, 'well, I'm not sure if this is good, but I'll give him the benifit of the doubt and say this expert is good'. They asked the subjects to guess how tall the speaker was and those who were told he was an expert guessed that he was 2 inches taller than the group that thought he was just a grad student. I doubt they conciously thought that. This is why no one says, 'well, I heard on CD that their good so thier preformance today was just a fluke'.