I love our blindness to our own bias. Can you imagine if we just beat, in any fashion, ALABAMA? this thread would be a wall of we should be#1 or the world is unfair.
Ive been watching on youtubetv this season. You can set it to record and start watching whenever, just like DVR. You can also select Michigan football as a team you're following and choose not to show scores so the app doesn't show you something you don't want to know. Overall, works pretty well so far for me. If you don't have the service already you should even get 1 or 2 weeks free.
1) Convenience sampling indeed has severe limitations, as the authors clearly state in the JAMA article. Statistics from studies are typically inferential - that is, they infer something about a risk or an association to a much greater population of interest.
HOWEVER: This convenience sample is very different in that we are discussing a much smaller population of interest: NFL players. The nyt review does a nice job of not missing the forest for the trees here. They note that even if every other NFL player who had died since the study began had tested negative for CTE (which of course wouldn't be the case), then the overall CTE rate would still be extremely high at about 9%. This means that we can infer that the CTE rate for NFL players that have died during this period is between 9% and 99%, both of course are extremes and therefore extremely unlikely. Even so, the 9% lowest possible rate would translate to an average of about 5 players on each NFL roster.
2) I applaud the OP's attempt to present the scientific merit of the new research. We still have a long way to go in science writing, and when the general population does not even have access to articles like this (in fact, the reproduction of tables in this entry are not strictly allowed for public dissemination), it will be a long road that I don't see us completing any time soon.
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if true, should we set the CU over under at 1.5 years, or .... oh yeah 1.5 years.
Haha. Amazing
I love our blindness to our own bias. Can you imagine if we just beat, in any fashion, ALABAMA? this thread would be a wall of we should be#1 or the world is unfair.
Map link is broken
Seriously? we're now bisexual bashing? good god, get a degree from another school bro
4/7 B1G! Well, currently
Ive been watching on youtubetv this season. You can set it to record and start watching whenever, just like DVR. You can also select Michigan football as a team you're following and choose not to show scores so the app doesn't show you something you don't want to know. Overall, works pretty well so far for me. If you don't have the service already you should even get 1 or 2 weeks free.
Who is down voting these hahaha!!
2 points here:
1) Convenience sampling indeed has severe limitations, as the authors clearly state in the JAMA article. Statistics from studies are typically inferential - that is, they infer something about a risk or an association to a much greater population of interest.
HOWEVER: This convenience sample is very different in that we are discussing a much smaller population of interest: NFL players. The nyt review does a nice job of not missing the forest for the trees here. They note that even if every other NFL player who had died since the study began had tested negative for CTE (which of course wouldn't be the case), then the overall CTE rate would still be extremely high at about 9%. This means that we can infer that the CTE rate for NFL players that have died during this period is between 9% and 99%, both of course are extremes and therefore extremely unlikely. Even so, the 9% lowest possible rate would translate to an average of about 5 players on each NFL roster.
2) I applaud the OP's attempt to present the scientific merit of the new research. We still have a long way to go in science writing, and when the general population does not even have access to articles like this (in fact, the reproduction of tables in this entry are not strictly allowed for public dissemination), it will be a long road that I don't see us completing any time soon.
LB ejections make it look easy