Interesting article on Malcolm Gladwell and cheating in sport. He suggests using statistical analysis to understand if record breakers are likely to have used drugs. Another example of how research must be innovative to find new stuff, but do we really want to find out? People enjoy sport for those moments that defy explanation. Maybe Flo Jo was cheating, I for one would rather not know. Read the full article here.
American Dream turns into a nightmare of numbers
Marina Hyde
Thursday April 20, 2006
The Guardian
On this basis I ought to be a sucker for an idea floated last week by Malcolm Gladwell. The author of Blink and The Tipping Point has just finished reading Game of Shadows, the extraordinary book by two reporters who have pulled off what has been called the Watergate of steroid abuse investigations, a work all the more remarkable for the fact that its highest profile target is the living legend Barry Bonds.
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