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[QUOTE="Pyle, post: 2623790, member: 137"]
Yes agreed. We see all of the evidence of CTE in football players. But where is the control group? How many non-football brains get dissected for evidence of CTE? There was a study that said that 99% of past NFL players brains dissected had evidence of CTE. The issue with that study is that only brains submitted by families of those who were showing signs of mental disorder were sent in. Does Joe Namath have CTE? What about Madden? How about the 1000's of other NFL players who lived normal lives after retirement? One thing I learned while getting my math degree is that it is very very easy to make stats and percentages say what you want them to.

An easy example. Let's you have a .0005% of contracting a specific disease in everyday life. However if you consume product A, your chance increases to .00075%. Technically you chances of getting sick have dramatically increased. That's right, product A has increased your risk of getting sick by 50% even though the overall rate of infection for you is still less than 1/100th of a percent in the total population.

CTE is real, it is sad, but there isn't nearly enough information currently available to make sound judgements.
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