maxgaines wrote:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/opinion/boston-marathon-women-nurse.html
I'd really like to see some actual statistical data instead of the author's mass of anecdotes. Raw numbers for this year's Boston are that about 96.2% of women who started the race finished vs about 95% of men-- so hardly the massive difference the article's author claims.
Does anyone have a good source for actual data on this topic?
It is also interesting that the author writes that in the past 7 runnings of the race, only 2/7 years had a higher dropout rate of men vs. women...this seems to contradict exactly the point that the author seems to be making. Granted, the author claims that those two years were "extreme conditions"; but there is no definition given to 'extreme conditions' or how far the other years were from these 'extreme conditions', which should be relatively easy to do. This is classic cherry picking of data. If the author wanted to actually be convincing to those who know how to read data, then it would have been presented in a convincing way. Don't take this to mean that I don't appreciate an opinion piece...I absolutely do, but there are way too many people who read these things and take the message away as an in-depth researched piece of journalism, or worse yet, proven fact...which it is not.
Stephen J
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