On Friday morning I checked out my co-workers on their preparedness for the Super Bowl Sunday. I am not following any sports (not even soccer, chess, ice hockey, or cricket), so my main interest was if they were prepared for a good party time. Turned out both of them for one reason or another were not planning on having a big party, just watching TV at home. With a couple of friends (best case scenario). Family circumstances and such. One of them also complained he could not buy meat for the party because of this snowstorm shopping frenzy that started already on Thursday.
For me the only value of Super Bowl is that it is a showcase of new TV commercials. But even then the breaks between the commercials, when they are showing the actual game I don’t understand, are too long. So I prefer to look up the new commercials on the internet the next day. Today on Time.com there is a full collection of all commercials that were run during airing of the Super Bowl. If you by chance missed them, take a peek. There is some pretty cool stuff to be found. By the way, Super Bowl is not the single biggest sports event watched by most people in the world, as one of my co-workers tried to argue. The rest of the world outside North America does not even know much about it. They live in blissful ignorance of this game, honestly believe that soccer, ice hockey, chess, cricket, gymnastics, or whatever else, you fill the gap here with your opinion ………………… , are the most popular, most watched sports events in the world.
And some of them are actually right, as it turns out the Soccer World Cup is the most watched sports event in the world. Of which popularity most of the people in the US are blissfully ignorant. Just a little example on biases and importance of minimizing their effect in decision making. Something I learned in my MBA class on Decicion Making\Judgement & Uncertainty.
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