简介:Validityandreliability,aswealllearnedinourfirstresearchmethodsclass,aretwoofthemostimportantqualitiesofanytest,measurementorassessment.Whencomparedwithvalidity,reliabilityisactuallymoreimportantsincewithoutit,therewouldbenovalidity.Sincereliabilityissoimportant,almostallresearchjournalstodayhavesomearticlesrelatedtoreliability.Unfortunately,manyofthesearticlesfailtoreport
简介:<正>WhenreportingtheprevalenceofchildhoodobesityintheUSAafewyearsago,themagazineU.S.News&WorldReportstated:"...some17percentofkidsarenowobese,whichmeansthey’reatorabovethe95thpercentileforweightinrelationtoheightfortheirage;anadditional17percentareoverweight,oratoroverthe85thpercentile."Anyonewithsomebasictraininginmeasurementorstatisticswillrealizethatthisstatementisincorrect.Thisisbecausethepercentileisdefinedasthevaluebelowwhichacertainpercentofobservationsfallinapopulation.Forexample,the15th
简介:Technologicaladvanceshaveincreasedtheprevalenceofsedentarybehaviors,asphysicalinactivityhasbecomeoneoftheleadingriskfactorsofdeathworldwide;asituationthatburdensthehealthcaresystemwithpreventablehealthdisorders.1Increasedincidenceofdiseasedecreasethequalityoflife,evenamongchildren,becausediseasesthatformerlyonsetduringadulthoodarenowimpactingpeopleearlyintheirlives,aswellasattheendoftheirlives,"bycumulativedamageovertimeorbythebiologicalembeddingofadversitiesduringsensitivedevelopmentalperiods"(p.1).2
简介:RecentarticlespublishedinNaturepointouthowsexbias,primarilyconcerningmale-exclusivity,inbiologicalresearchresultinmisleadingandambiguousscience.1-4Forexample,themajorityofanimalstudiespublishedinacademicjournalsusedonlymales,whileonlyverylimitedstudieswereinvestigatedinfemalesorbothsexes.Theconsequencesofsuchmale-favoredsexbiasinbiomedicalstudieshadleadtoahugecostinthebiomedicalindustryincludingdrugdevelopment.Between1997and2001,eightoutof10prescriptiondrugswerewithdrawnfromthemarketbytheUSFDAbecausetheyshowedmoresideeffects
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简介:Deareditor,Intheircomment,Kreweretal.1arguethatbeforeselectingaspecificmethodforassessingproprioception,itisessentialtoconsiderwhichcomponentofproprioceptionistobeassessed.Theyalsonotethatthereisnosinglemethodforassessingallaspectsofthevariousproprioceptivesenses,becausetheneurophysiologicalprocessesunderlyingproprioceptivefunction
简介:Theterm'physicalliteracy'isgainingtractioninmanycountriesandinstitutionsasagoalforphysicaleducation.Thispaperexplorestheconceptofphysicalliteracyandhighlightsthefoundationalworkinthisarea,particularlythatofMargaretWhitehead.Therelationshipofphysicalliteracytophysicaleducationisalsodiscussedwithpotentialramificationsforteachersandlearnerswhoadoptphysicalliteracyasthegoalofthesubjectarea.