July 8, 2011
WHERE THE MEN ARE WOMEN AND THE WOMEN ARE MEN (via The Other Brother):
Women football players half as likely to fake an injury as men (Cory Doctorow, Jul 7, 2011, Boing-Boing)
According to a study published in Research in Sports Medicine, woman football (soccer) players are about half as likely to fake an injury as male players. The researchers used a representative sample of match-videos, counted injuries, and noted whether the player left the field for a substantial period or had visible blood, and counted those as definite injuries, then ranked the remaining injuries by their plausibility. Hilariously, they use the term "injury simulation," instead of "faking an injury," the former is apparently the term of art preferred by FIFA, which knows an awful lot about fraud.
Posted by oj at July 8, 2011 6:03 AM
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