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British professional soccer team Manchester United Football Club, whose home uniform color is mainly red, won more than half its home matches between 1947 and 2003. This is a higher proportion of home matches than Hull City Association Football Club, whose home uniform color is not red, won during the same period. According to a study by Martin J. Attrill and colleagues, the color red can cause people to respond with fear and hesitation, which the researchers think helps explain Manchester United's success. Nadav Goldschmied and colleagues reanalyzed the published data from this study, however, and found no evidence that red-uniformed teams are more likely than other teams to win, suggesting that Manchester United's performance at its home stadium _______.

would probably have remained roughly the same if its players had not been wearing red uniforms.

was likely influenced by its opponents' associations with the color red.

was directly tied to its players' general satisfaction with their uniform color.

may have influenced other teams to change their uniform colors.