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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
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Sure. As it acknowledges, "If Sharp had behaved more like a scientist—and if
Slate had acted more like a scientific journal—then his analysis would not have made it into print."
And then spins that into a benefit of stimulating debate and analysis.
My quarrel with Sharp's analysis isn't that. It's with the media that was pretty sloppy about reporting it in the first place and critically analyzing it in the second place. And with fans that haven't bothered to read past the initial breathless headlines about the fumble rate without either following up or bothering to understand the problems with the statistics, but repeat them as if they demonstrated as much as Sharp suggested. (hi Hank!).