Alex DanversFor baseball fans: research suggests complaining to umps gets you more favorable calls.
"After being excessively criticized, home-plate umpires (N = 110 adults, employed in the United States) were less likely to call strikes to batters from the complaining team and more prone to call strikes to batters on the opposing team."
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09567976241227411