https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/dwelling-on-mistakes-score Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/dwelling-on-mistakes-scoreThere are two studies and they do not point the same way. The first, the only one to measure dwelling itself, is an old one: across almost two hundred archers in the United States, of all the mental items in the questionnaire, thinking back to mistakes already made is the one most strongly linked to the season's average score, and it weighs more than any other in separating those above and below 1200 points. It is a snapshot taken once, though, and a snapshot does not show which way time runs: archers who shoot badly have more mistakes to go back to, and that alone would explain the link. The same questionnaire also shows that those who dwell on mistakes have less confidence and make less use of visual imagery, so the three measures move together and cannot be separated. The second, on fifty young Malaysian archers, measures worry about making mistakes, a close relative of dwelling on them, and finds it is the only mental skill that does not set apart those who shoot better. It is a weak finding, from six arrows and with no test, and it concerns mistakes still to come more than those already made, but it points the other way.claim:rimuginio-punteggio:revision:2026-07-07:3Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/dwelling-on-mistakes-score#storiaA Malaysian group measures the mental skills of fifty young archers with a questionnaire and finds that freedom from worry is the only one that does not set apart those who shoot better. The scale asks how much one worries about making mistakes and about others' judgement, not how much one goes back to mistakes already made, but worry about making mistakes is a close relative of dwelling on them, and this is the first finding to point the opposite way to 1986. It is weak: just six arrows, groups built by combining mental skills and score, differences shown in plots with no test, and the group's two articles report the same sample, which counts once. With one study on each side, contested.claim:rimuginio-punteggio:status_change:2026-05-28:contestatoThu, 28 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/dwelling-on-mistakes-scoreclaim:rimuginio-punteggio:new_claim:2026-01-07:riportatoWed, 07 Jan 2026 08:00:00 GMT