Originally Posted by
Block944
As a scientist you do know the red bar is the average with the blue bars as the high and low values...
No I don't know that actually, and that is not how I would interpret those graphs if this were a talk given in my field. Why do you assume that is what they are out of interest? Those look to be error bars, not "hi/lo" measurements, but then again, I'm not someone who works in "sports innovation" so I don't know what the standards are in that field.
Even if these are "max/min" rather than 1-sigma error, those graphs do not show an obvious trend. Where do they quote the results of statistical test that proves the trend exists? Answer: they don't, they show some tweaked graphs and state a trend exists, with no proof that it actually does.
Is there a published paper for this study, maybe they give more details there?
FYI I'm not saying that the trend isn't there, I'm just saying they haven't demonstrably measured it.
LOL jokers, the study is from mit where did you go to school.
Why the **** is that relevant exactly? Do MIT studies get a pass on not actually proving their results because they're MIT?