As an ancient Greek philosopher, Plato, once said: “human behaviour flows from

three main sources: desire, emotion and knowledge”

Red and blue, two opposites, to most of you here these two are simply colours, but
to the few that understand the significance on evolution that these colours hold,
this idea changes from a shallow, insignificant puddle, to an amazing glacier
showing deeper meaning from which the normal human eye cannot see.

Let's talk statistics, in 2008 there was a study published in the journal of
Cyberpsychology, Behaviour and Social Networking that took data from 1347 games of
unreal tournament 2004. All the games were TDM (team deathmatch) and were all
played by evenly matched players so that no bias was in the experiment. The results
showed a significant difference between the teams with a 55/45 split for a game
that should be 50/50 split. However, going only off statistics from gaming seems
shallow, doesn’t it?

We find this is not only extending to video games, in 2011 an article made by the
association of psychological science researchers took statistics from the 2004
Olympics in Athens they discovered that across the board that athletes wearing red
did better than athletes wearing blue. Especially in hand-to-hand combat events
like boxing or wrestling. In a similar study about taekwondo 42 referees were shown
2 sets of games with red and blue opponents sparring, and then allocating points
based on their aggression. However, the second set of videos were the exact same as
the first, only with the colours swapped using video editing. In both cases the
fighter in red was awarded an average of 14% more points with a 43/57 split.

Now you may argue that these sports are not widely popular, and you want statistics
and information directly taken from something that everyone knows and include team
sports? Easy football

Again, football is shown to have these flaws as well, while there seems to be
evidence that colour does impact performance within individual sports, Attrill,
Gresty, Hill and Barton (2008) were keen to investigate whether colour also has an
impact on performance in team sports. They examined the colour red and its
associations with long term team success in English football. Their investigation
revealed that English football teams wearing a red strip had been champions more
often than would be expected on the basis of the proportion of clubs that played in
red. This finding was also supported by Greenlees, Leyland, Thelwell and Filby
(2008) who focused their investigation on Football penalty takers’ uniform colour.
Their study revealed that penalty takers wearing red were perceived by the
Goalkeepers in two key ways: 1. that they would possesses more positive
characteristics than those wearing white and 2. And that their chance of
successfully saving penalty kicks from them was lower than those wearing white.

Before I finish there is one more study that piques my interest, that of pure
evolution and demonstration that over millions of years, evolution, and what us
humans instinctively boil down to have always been the same. We have and always
will be at core primates, primitive and animalistic, it's what we are. Now I would
like to share the study. A neurophysiologist Jerald D. Kralik assessed a test with
monkeys and two people, one female and one male. As a control they were told to
walk up and place a Styrofoam tray on the floor, then present the apple slice at
chest height to then place it on the Styrofoam and proceed to walk away. Then this
process was repeated several times with pieces of clothing changed with variants of
colours of blue, green or red. Interestingly enough the monkey barely cared for the
gender of the human or the colours of blue and green, but when it came to red, the
monkey would physically go out of the way to not pick the apple slice given by that
person.

As Kralik once said “we primates and then humans are very visual, we are also very
social, and we start to see that colour may have a deeper and wider-ranging
influence on us that previously thought”