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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
Your analysis is valuable.
If I may, you're taking disagreement and criticism way too personally.
Dummies are dummies, and they're annoying, but don't take that personally.
The rest of us can see things differently and respectfully.
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The personal aspect is that I'm not an idiot. If someone has two undergrad majors and a master's, they probably aren't an idiot. Given that education, somewhere along the lines, I PROBABLY took a statistics course or four. Can I still do really advanced statistical analysis? No, I don't use it every day. But being told I don't understand studies and statistics is a direct slap in the face; that's personal.
Also, I know a lot about this injury and the construct because I took human anatomy, biomechanics, kinesiology, physiology, exercise physiology, sports injuries, and so on as part of my second major, and I took the time to read the data compilation specific to the sport. Am I Rick Burkholder? **** no, but that doesn't mean I don't understand how horrible the injury is to ALL athletes. Yet, I'm an idiot. That's personal.
Just because Joe Blow can still walk good as a 50-year-old, goatee-sportin', Camaro-driving, big-dick superstar fan on a Chiefs message board after having this injury doesn't mean it's a good thing for an athlete. It's especially not a good thing for a football player who requires a lot more power generation through their legs than some other sports require. I wouldn't understand that, because I'm the idiot.
So I apologize that my frustrations led to me calling people idiots or morons as well, and that was childish of me. I don't think you're an idiot. I don't think DJ is an idiot. I don't think every person standing on the other side of the fence is an idiot. And so on.
As for the contributions, nah man, plenty of resources out there to get the same information. This place will not miss one bit of what I provide, and that's not tooting my own horn. That's just being completely realistic. I don't want and am not asking for sympathy/empathy, whatever you want to call it. I don't want accolades and pats on the back and all that shit.
I'm just tired of fighting. And the less you provide, the fewer arguments there will be. If someone asks specifically for an opinion or alludes to wanting that opinion, as you did with ONL, I'll give it.