Jessica K. Witt, an assistant professor of psychological sciences who studies perception in athletes, and two graduate students have published a study in the June Psychonomic Bulletin and Review journal demonstrating that good golfers perceive a larger hole than poor golfers. "We found golfers who play better judge the hole to be bigger than golfers who did not play as well," says Witt, quoted in ScienceDaily. The cause and effect--whether better performance leads to larger hole perception or larger hole perception leads to better performance--is unclear. Witt believes that each effects the other.
What's this got to do with careers in science (or any other field)? That is left as an exercise for the reader.
