Messages In This Digest (5 Messages)
- 1a.
- Re: What is a Good Study? Questions You Can Ask From: Giovanni Ciriani
- 1b.
- Re: What is a Good Study? Questions You Can Ask From: deadliftdiva@comcast.net
- 2a.
- Re: Low Doses of Hormone-like Chemicals May Have Big Effects: Scient From: deadliftdiva@comcast.net
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- What We Have Here Is A Failure To Replicate From: David Supertraining International
- 4.
- Shot Put Training Program Middle School Girls From: cyclingcoach1
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Re: What is a Good Study? Questions You Can Ask
Posted by: "Giovanni Ciriani" Giovanni.Ciriani@Gmail.com gciriani
Sat Mar 17, 2012 8:38 am (PDT)
David,
I encourage those interested in this topic to read the comments, especially
the one by mdw 3/15/12.
The article gives the impression that if sample size is not large enough, a
study is not valid whatever p is. I think that's misleading for people who
do not have a solid understanding of statistics. Sample size is already
taken into account when calculating p, so if p passes statistical muster it
is incorrect to look at sample size to further prove or disprove the study.
Obviously if the effect studied is real, increasing the sample size will
improve p (lower p).
Giovanni Ciriani - West Hartford, CT - USA
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:12 AM, David Supertraining International <
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Re: What is a Good Study? Questions You Can Ask
Posted by: "deadliftdiva@comcast.net" deadliftdiva@comcast.net
Sat Mar 17, 2012 8:38 am (PDT)
Randi misses one of the more interesting questions lately: conflict of interest. Does the researcher/writer have stock in the company that makes it, or have a financial stake in the results, is the study being funded by a corporation who will benefit from the results. Far too many 'studies' fall into this category.
Another problem of late is a study will take into account healthy males and completely exclude women as test subjects, then extrapolate the results to women.
Reading the context of a study before deciding that it's meaningful is another problem - some supplements are based on a study of post-surgical recovery in a limited context and then somehow considered to mean that the item is useful for gaining muscle if taken orally....
The Phantom
aka Linda Schaefer, CMT/RMT, competing powerlifter
Denver, Colorado, USA
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From: "David Supertraining International" <david@supertraininginternational. >com
To: Supertraining@yahoogroups. com
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 6:12:50 AM
Subject: [Supertraining] What is a Good Study? Questions You Can Ask
http://www.randi.org/site/ index.php/ swift-blog/ 1658-what- is-a-good- study-questions- you-can-ask. html
David Driscoll
Sydney, Australia
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Re: Low Doses of Hormone-like Chemicals May Have Big Effects: Scient
Posted by: "deadliftdiva@comcast.net" deadliftdiva@comcast.net
Sat Mar 17, 2012 8:38 am (PDT)
Interesting article.
While it is encouraging to hear the alarms are being raised, I suspect strongly governments especially are not as interested in keeping their citizens alive as they may have previously seemed... that we are of interest to our government only in our working (tax paying of course) and consuming lifespans, not when we are more likely to ask something of our government for support or medical care later in life!
It is now fashionable to get rid of the BPA bottles, and the makers of water and baby bottles are of course making new bottles and selling them to us - so this "alarm" was of use to someone... I think, however, they want the corn warning and other basic food stuff concerns to quietly "go away" as they will not be "useful" to the corporate masters lol.
I'm not sure the scientists in this case will get too far, considering that there is an open effort in Congress to dismantle portions of the Clean Water Act and EPA enforcement recently, it's not just the low exposures to endocrine altering things that matter, it's the big picture of clean water and air, far more basic concerns at stake. The likelihood of getting the food supply cleaned up of e.coli and other dread bugs is also of great concern to most people and quite important, but one hears of continuing recalls and other hazards from buying and consuming food. The "pink slime" outrage this past week focused on fresh meat but carefully skirted the popular and more widespread inclusion of "mechanically separated meats" in packaged/frozen foods...
It's one thing to get the regulations out there, quite another to enforce them not only on USA but on other countries (e.g., China) who have widereaching production and distribution and it appears little concern outside of angering trade partners with toxic heavy metals from time to time...?
A bit cynical this bright morning,
The Phantom
aka Linda Schaefer, CMT/RMT, competing powerlifter
Denver, Colorado, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Supertraining International" <david@supertraininginternational. >com
To: Supertraining@yahoogroups. com
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 6:14:59 AM
Subject: [Supertraining] Low Doses of Hormone-like Chemicals May Have Big Effects: Scientific American
http://www.scientificamerican. com/article. cfm?id=low- doses-hormone- like-chemicals- may-have- big-effects
David Driscoll
Sydney, Australia
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What We Have Here Is A Failure To Replicate
Posted by: "David Supertraining International" david@supertraininginternational.com driscoll_david
Sat Mar 17, 2012 6:56 pm (PDT)
http://www.randi.org/site/ index.php/ swift-blog/ 1659-what- we-have-here- is-a-failure- to-replicate. html
David Driscoll
Sydney, Australia
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Shot Put Training Program Middle School Girls
Posted by: "cyclingcoach1" cyclingcoach@lycos.com cyclingcoach1
Sun Mar 18, 2012 12:59 am (PDT)
Never thought it would be so confusing trying to learn about shot put training. Not a lot of quality info that I can find. Are coaches too secretive at this level?
These are 12-14 year old girls trying shot put for the first time. There is a lot of drills and strength training info but not much consensus.
After reading the available literature my gut says: 50% technique, 30% strength training, 20% agility/plyometrics. Anyone have any info or resources they could share?
Michael Taskey
Kent, WA
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