Comments on: Playing football causes stupidity http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2005/10/11/playing-football-causes-stupidity/ Dedicated to the eradication of stupidity worldwide. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:41:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Contact Sports contribute to Alzheimers « Run to Win » http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2005/10/11/playing-football-causes-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-1108 Contact Sports contribute to Alzheimers « Run to Win » Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:31:51 +0000 http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2005/10/11/playing-football-causes-stupidity/#comment-1108 [...] Contact Sports contribute to Alzheimers The Science Blog has an article about how concussions promote dementia in retired football players, which was mentioned over at Make Stupidity History. I do not necessarily agree with the interpretation by the folks at MSH, but I thought that the original article would be worth commenting on. Basically, the study was run by sending questionaires to a few thousand retired football players, comparing results of the questionaire and then sending new ones to about one thousand again, and analyzing those results. Those who had been diagnosed with concussions had a more likely chance of having had memory problems as they got older, and those with 3 or more concussions were much more likely than any of the others. As pointed out in MSH, though: The study’s chief limitation was that it was based on self-reported answers to the health questions, and the accuracy of remembering memory problems could not be verified completely. [...] [...] Contact Sports contribute to Alzheimers The Science Blog has an article about how concussions promote dementia in retired football players, which was mentioned over at Make Stupidity History. I do not necessarily agree with the interpretation by the folks at MSH, but I thought that the original article would be worth commenting on. Basically, the study was run by sending questionaires to a few thousand retired football players, comparing results of the questionaire and then sending new ones to about one thousand again, and analyzing those results. Those who had been diagnosed with concussions had a more likely chance of having had memory problems as they got older, and those with 3 or more concussions were much more likely than any of the others. As pointed out in MSH, though: The study’s chief limitation was that it was based on self-reported answers to the health questions, and the accuracy of remembering memory problems could not be verified completely. [...]

]]> By: Run to Win http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2005/10/11/playing-football-causes-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Run to Win Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:34:02 +0000 http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2005/10/11/playing-football-causes-stupidity/#comment-26 <strong>Contact Sports contribute to Alzheimers</strong> The Science Blog has an article about how concussions promote dementia in retired football players, which was mentioned over at Make Stupidity History. I do not necessarily agree with the interpretation by the folks at MSH, but I thought that the ori... Contact Sports contribute to Alzheimers

The Science Blog has an article about how concussions promote dementia in retired football players, which was mentioned over at Make Stupidity History. I do not necessarily agree with the interpretation by the folks at MSH, but I thought that the ori…

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