Does doping in trainees and elite sports cause problems in the interpretation of results in scientific research?
As we know for instance about doping use in cycling before, how does this impact results found in previous times?
How can this be problematic in current research? As we can not be sure of clean athletes and/or subjects in research
Dear Peter,
Almost all participants in every study will be selected based on a criteria which they must not use either any ergogenic aids or medications for the last 3-6 months before starting a research project.
Alireza Naderi still how can you be sure? Do you test this? Isn't this easy to pass by? What about impact of ergogenic aids that have been used before? Once you use them there will be effects, no mather if you do not use them for 3-6 months. Sometimes I read they need to sign a document, or do one test? In certain competitions there is also one test, which is not a scientific setting in my opinion. In cycling there is reseach that contained doped athletes, which also shows it can be bypassed.
Dear Peter,
Actually it depends on the levels of participants that we select. Elite? Highly trained? Recreational?. As majority of studies come from trained and recreational athletes and in this levels doping is not common ( however it depends on the kind of sports). But there are some effective way to monitor the subjects. For example;
We should make a contact with their coach and we can not take any data without their coach's collaboration. Research design also can be a considered a critical factor for determining a difference between groups. I agree with you. We can not detect when a doping abuse is applied by athletes but we should be optimistic and try to find appropriate subjects with high rate of commitment during data collection.
Hey guys. It is an interesting topic, and recently I had a conversation about this issue with one of the pioneer researchers in sports sciences at the University of Sydney. Sport science studies always are encountered with this problem. Along with ergogenic aids, many other confounding variables can also affect the results of sport science studies. That's why recently it was mentioned that more than 90 percent of the sport science studies results aren't reproducible. It's mean that if a group of researchers conducting a study and publishing their result and any research group in another country want to conduct the same study, there is just less than 10 % chance that results of them being similar to each other. We can not translate the results of a sports science study with a small sample size to other groups, and the results of that study are just valid within participants of that study.
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