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Originally Posted by Enoch Root

Also, the entire discussion about yellow being the most eye-catching, on down to the least noticeable, is really only applicable on a one-off basis (i.e. new information to your eyes/brain)

When you are looking at the goalie all game, one colour of pads is no different than another. Your brain doesn't notice black pads more than red pads or white pads or whatever, it has already registered the goalie as a recognized item in your field of vision.

The whole topic appears to be mis-applied information I think.

It is similar to the tail light argument, when they added a third tail light in the back window. They added it, then surveyed people to see if it was more noticeable. Well yeah, there's a brand new ####ing red light that wasn't there before. Yes, it is noticeable. However, once used to the light being there, it makes little difference. It's better than it not being there (marginally), but the entire testing of it was horribly flawed.

If 98% of the goalies in the league are wearing white pads every game, then these coloured pads are definitely going to be "new information" every time they're used.