100m WR predictions

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@Dazed

It’s a news paper article reporting on a working paper, each with completely different objectives in mind. Surely you’ve been around long enough to have witnessed how scientific findings are sensationalized to capture the public imagination. which although not necessarily a bad thing for the sport, doesn’t make for good science of analysis of findings.

It’s like the conclusions that are reached on athletes training from tidbits reported in news articles - they aren’t necessarily untrue, but are devoid of the context that the statements were made under, or sometimes just misinterpreted by the author.

I discovered while reading the paper that the authors used the term ‘ultimate record’ to mean the very fastest time that would seem statistically possible right now, not the ultimate fastest in the future.