The subjects of the study are students, but there was no attempt to randomize the sampling. Instead, the authors chose the schools and the athletic programs within the schools. The students self-selected for participation, which also may have affected the participation rates. Because the schools and athletic programs were involved, the subjects may have been wary of the promise of confidentiality, causing the results to have some bias. Singer, von Thurn and Miller (1995) note that when the data is sensitive, confidentiality assurances can improve the quality of responses. However, the confidentiality promise needs to come from the researcher in order to be completely trustworthy. Thus, the methodology introduced some bias into the study with the design of its confidentiality mechanism, and the researchers introduced bias when they failed to randomize school and program selection. The independent variable is the prevalence of drug usage. The dependent variables were the NCAA division, the team, the gender and the race/ethnicity of the respondents. The responses were in the form of categorical variables (yes or no). The responses were subject to Chi-squared analysis to "determine if sport division or ethnic category could differentiate drug-use patterns among collegiate student-athletes" (p.52). This test does provide information regarding the statistical difference between the groups (p.52) but the authors choose not to interpret the data further. The authors discuss the statistical, but not practical significance...
This approach is appropriate, since the role of the study is to inform policy, not set policy.
Despite the mixed feelings of many on the issue, however, it seems as though Jeremy Bloom had his rights restricted very strongly by the NCAA, since there was no correlation between the football that he was playing at the University of Colorado and the skiing-related endorsements that he was receiving payment for. Bloom may have given up these rights when he enrolled in the University, but it is suspected that
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