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Ep. 258 - The Rise of Lifting Antiscience

Iron Culture presented by MASS

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Understanding the Relationship Between Science and the Lifting Community

The lifting community is closely intertwined with science as gym-goers and study participants are often the same individuals. The values and attentional focus of individuals play a crucial role in how science is interpreted. Being evidence-based involves incorporating scientific data, personal experiences, and individual preferences. Science and personal experiences serve different but complementary roles, and they are more effective when utilized together. Limitations of science include isolating variables too much and not accounting for interactions between variables and sampling variants. The idea that a supercomputer could solve these issues and provide optimal solutions is a misunderstanding of the complexities involved in data analysis within the lifting community.

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