https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/competition-anxiety-archer-age 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/competition-anxiety-archer-ageThe only comparison comes from a hundred and fifty-six archers who had taken part in the 2018 Turkey Cup and who filled in Spielberger's inventory on state anxiety, how anxious someone feels in the moment, and trait anxiety, how anxious they tend to be in general. Split into four age bands of very different sizes (eighty-seven aged 14 to 24, seventeen aged 25 to 35, thirty-two aged 36 to 46 and twenty aged 47 and over), they show no difference in either (p = 0.63 and 0.68). The paper, however, reports only the analysis of variance and not the means of each band, so not even the direction of the small differences there are can be seen. A null result says that the study saw no difference, not that there is none, and here there are three reasons for caution: the youngest band puts fourteen-year-olds together with adults of twenty-four, age is not separated from years of practice, and the paper does not say when the questionnaires were filled in, or whether it was during the competition. It is a single cross-sectional study, in a journal with questionable editorial standards: the registry reports it but does not use it to decide the status, which remains not studied.claim:ansia-eta-arciere:revision:2026-03-26:2Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/competition-anxiety-archer-ageclaim:ansia-eta-arciere:new_claim:2026-01-31:non_studiatoSat, 31 Jan 2026 08:00:00 GMT