Editing Sports science (section)

==Reproducibility==
A 2018 study criticized the field of [[exercise science|exercise]] and sports science for insufficient replication studies, limited reporting of both null and trivial results, and insufficient research transparency.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Halperin |first1=Israel |last2=Vigotsky |first2=Andrew D. |last3=Foster |first3=Carl |last4=Pyne |first4=David B. |date=1 February 2018 |title=Strengthening the Practice of Exercise and Sport-Science Research |journal=International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=127–134 |doi=10.1123/ijspp.2017-0322 |issn=1555-0273 |pmid=28787228 |hdl=10072/383414 |s2cid=3695727 |hdl-access=free}}</ref> Statisticians have criticized sports science for common use of [[magnitude-based inference]], a controversial statistical method which has allowed sports scientists to extract apparently significant results from noisy data where ordinary hypothesis testing would have found none.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-shoddy-statistics-found-a-home-in-sports-research/ |title=How Shoddy Statistics Found A Home In Sports Research |first1=Christie |last1=Aschwanden |author-link=Christie Aschwanden |first2=Mai |last2=Nguyen |date=16 May 2018 |website=FiveThirtyEight |language=en-US |access-date=16 May 2018 |archive-date=21 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921174348/https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-shoddy-statistics-found-a-home-in-sports-research/ |url-status=live }}</ref>