BigMac said:This must mean Valverde is clean, whereas Benjamin King is doped to the gills.
He went from 0 wins last year to 1 this year. That's an infinite% improvement.
Must be drugs.
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BigMac said:This must mean Valverde is clean, whereas Benjamin King is doped to the gills.
The psychological state of an athlete is believed to contribute to performance (Vealey, 2001; Hays, Thomas, Maynard & Bawden, 2009). Perhaps some athletes, knowing they are achieving results by means which are unethical, have a subconscious barrier to increased performance, an intangible holding them back...
blackcat never beats around the bush.blackcat said:cos the're both idjitsThe Hitch said:Umm what.sniper said:this was always going to be an australian or british study.
Why?
lol indeed.Gung Ho Gun said:This is great:
The psychological state of an athlete is believed to contribute to performance (Vealey, 2001; Hays, Thomas, Maynard & Bawden, 2009). Perhaps some athletes, knowing they are achieving results by means which are unethical, have a subconscious barrier to increased performance, an intangible holding them back...
The winter sports they have looked at are speed skating and ski jumping, no cross country. "World records" is the clue here, no such thing in cross country.Merckx index said:Then they claim that the earlier trends are maintained for the most part in winter sports. IOW, there has been more improvement in winter sports records than in summer sports records. Yet they interpret this as evidence that winter sports are cleaner (like cross-country skiing?). Why? Because they’ve already concluded that the asymptote in summer sports, which they call degradation, is the result of a negative effect of doping. Since winter sports records are improving, it must be because they don’t have doping holding them back.
Yeah it's just absurdly bad. Not even when I worked as a consultant and talked *** to clients all the time did my "analyses" ever stoop to this level. Gotta have some self respectDear Wiggo said:https://theconversation.com/profiles/aaron-hermann-99924
Guy has a degree in archeology and law. Uses graphs with 4 data points and an R^2 of 0.6 to "prove" doping doesn't work.
Untenable.
Dear Wiggo said:I mentioned the degrees because it means he has studied, and is not dumb per se. So his graphs and their use as "evidence" seems duplicitous.
You study medical sciences?Red Rick said:Was expecting a *** study design. I clicked the link and guess what I found
Anyone know if that's a legit scientific journal?
Oh god, lead author actually has a PhD
I feel ashamed of being a student medical sciences right now
The Hitch said:You study medical sciences?Red Rick said:Was expecting a *** study design. I clicked the link and guess what I found
Anyone know if that's a legit scientific journal?
Oh god, lead author actually has a PhD
I feel ashamed of being a student medical sciences right now
I'm getting worried, you training to be the next Ferrari or something?
Red Rick said:I'm gonna study Biomedical Sciences, so all diseases will be gone in 10 years or they will fly up the Alp in less than half an hour because of me
Or a veterinarianRed Rick said:Not gonna be a doping doctor though, think you have to be a physician to do that
yep, phd aint no whitepaperDear Wiggo said:hash tag hash brown
neineinei said:The winter sports they have looked at are speed skating and ski jumping, no cross country. "World records" is the clue here, no such thing in cross country.Merckx index said:Then they claim that the earlier trends are maintained for the most part in winter sports. IOW, there has been more improvement in winter sports records than in summer sports records. Yet they interpret this as evidence that winter sports are cleaner (like cross-country skiing?). Why? Because they’ve already concluded that the asymptote in summer sports, which they call degradation, is the result of a negative effect of doping. Since winter sports records are improving, it must be because they don’t have doping holding them back.
Records are being recognised in ski jumping. The mens record is 251.5 m, set this season.Red Rick said:Including the Ski jumping WR is indeed hilarious. I think they don't actually recognise new WR's as such anymore, cuz it might lead to the jumpers taking extra risks
Catwhoorg said:
yep no difference at all from 1980 to 2012 in the Olympic finals.
Red convicted doper
Yellow, positive test but dodged sanction
Green, unquestionable links to doping, but no conviction
White, questioned links to doping, but no conviction
Pink with purple dots = 100% take it to the bank clean
Pentacycle said:Thanks. First of all, the main variable, doping use over time, cannot be quantified. Furthermore, there are too many unjustified/unexplained assumptions in this paper, and the examples of 'performance degradation' are more exception than a rule. It's based on statistics, therefore not reliable. One could also conclude the complete opposite from the data set, if you pick out certain examples.Bronstein said:Pentacycle said:Got the link to the original document? Because there might be some assumptions that I'd love to read the justification of.
http://www.jhse.ua.es/jhse/article/view/699/1012