https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/archery-attention-and-concentration 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/archery-attention-and-concentrationThis is the question where the result follows the study design, and it is visible to the naked eye. The most striking gains come from beginners' courses measured before and after: almost twenty-five points more on the Bourdon test in forty youngsters after twelve hours of lessons, the attention score up by 41 per cent and concentration by 289 in twenty-six adult beginners, with the twenty controls not moving. The two randomised studies, by contrast, find nothing: two months of shooting in twenty-two Ukrainian beginners leave the attention tables where they were, and in twenty Malaysian adults six weeks of shooting do not shorten reaction times more than doing nothing, because both groups improve. That last study also carries the explanation of the rest: repeating the same test after six weeks improves it by itself, through familiarity. The same warning appears inside three of the favourable studies, where the control group improves by retaking the test, where the baseline score rises with age more than it rises with a month of practice, and where the effect shows only in the cognitively demanding conditions. On comparisons between those who shoot and those who do not the picture is just as split: a hundred registered Turkish children do better than peers who have just arrived, eighty Turkish children grouped by sport do not differ at all, and thirty-eight Chinese archers at provincial or national level come out slightly worse than sedentary peers on interference tests, although their disadvantage lies in how many items they complete rather than in errors. Nobody, in any of this, has checked whether the attention measured by a test changes anything on the target.claim:arco-attenzione-concentrazione:revision:2026-10-10:2Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/archery-attention-and-concentrationclaim:arco-attenzione-concentrazione:new_claim:2026-09-18:contestatoFri, 18 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT