actually u made it clear for meon that last article
good job phil!
actually u made it clear for meon that last article
good job phil!
Tike wrote:
the paper probably didnt and i believe you but that article most certainly did it screw up everything.
The author of the piece, Tom Simonite, was apparently writing science articles for the Cambridge U student newspaper last year so perhaps he's not very experienced. His comment "If you are of a similarly athletic frame, you can find where you lie on this curve, and what your ideal running distance is", is rather dumb since we can presume that not many of the readers are elite runners and that is the category for which the correlation applies!
Yeah, i had the same thought... a lot of times scientists are pressured to find "practical applications" for their research, and often come up with stupid ideas. The first thing that jumped into my mind when i read this is that he's trying to justify his research to the general public.
On the other hand, I think it IS interesting to see the correlation of distance with BMI (or muscle mass, since we can assume that none of these guys are exactly fatties) for elite athletes. I've noticed that the sprinters are huge, and typically the biggest are the fastest. This quantifies it.
dafdsfd wrote:
Yeah, i had the same thought... a lot of times scientists are pressured to find "practical applications" for their research, and often come up with stupid ideas. The first thing that jumped into my mind when i read this is that he's trying to justify his research to the general public.
Sorry I thought it was clear, Simonite wrote a commentary for Nature News on the paper published by Weygand and Davis in J. Experimental Biology and he had nothing to do with the work. The business about the T rex and the 'find your event' stuff is all of his PR stuff and nothing to do with the original paper! To my mind he misses some of the points of the paper but many people will only read his commentary and get the wrong end of the stick.
Didn't anybody notice the error bars on that graph? They present a sizable variation at the longer distances.