Re:The Tiger Woods Effect: Paralysis by Analysis
by Dove on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @02:59AM
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Indeed. This part constitutes the science: "When the superstar entered a tournament, every other golfer took, on average, 0.8 more strokes." The rest is speculation.
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Re:The Tiger Woods Effect: Paralysis by Analysis
by neilc on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @03:54AM
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In fact, even that phrasing is slightly misleading, because it suggests causality -- I suspect the evidence only supports correlation.
The article is a particularly idiotic example of uninformed speculation passing for science journalism.