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The AIU has provisionally suspended reigning World and former Olympic champion, Peres Jepchirchir, after an out-of-competition sample, collected in Kenya prior to her recent Sydney Marathon victory, returned an adverse analytical finding for EPO. 1/2View quoted post on X
But what mistakes did they make to “have a bad day”? Recall they are the experts. Experts should know how not to have a bad day. That’s my point.View quoted post on X
In scientific experimentation measuring performance effects, it’s critical that performances must be highly reproducible. That’s why reproducible experiments are more valuable than accepting what the experts believe.
But the best is to take the experts’ beliefs and subject them to rigorous testing particularly in an attempt at disproof. That’s how science is meant to work.
It’s difficult but it’s why science evolved as a special human endeavour as recently as the last 500 years. Before that we only had beliefs.
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Yeah, I said it.
Ross Tucker compares early talent ID to meeting a character on page 12 of a book and deciding how they will turn out by the end based on that one page alone.
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