Flucutating hct

timoid.
timoid. Posts: 3,133
edited April 2009 in Pro race
May have been posted before, but how do you explain the differences between this:

http://tiny.cc/Tz1E6

and this:

http://tiny.cc/k1WvA
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    It's the number on the 4/2/2009. Two tables on different pages, one from 12 February and one from 7 April. The April table shows 43.1%, the February one shows 45.8% - but for the same date in February. Maybe someone has a made an admin error, a typo. Maybe they were massaged down because 45.8 stands out a bit, especially because it's a bit above average? He could be very dehydrated of course.

    But if you're going to publish the numbers, get it right otherwise skeptics pick up on these things, just as they see through phoney attacks on the AFLD.
  • wasp707
    wasp707 Posts: 116
    I think that this is just a clear example of how haematocrit readings can vary. :D
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    If it was just an admin error you'd expect the OFF score not to change, but it has. It's probably only picked up by people on internet forums who don't represent the real world.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Having not looked at the links, I'd guess......uuummmm.....Armstrong Liestrong site.
    Ooopps sorry, missed a "v" in there. :P

    Maybe this is another French conspiracy? :roll:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • micron
    micron Posts: 1,843
    He wants to be careful about those fluctuating values - that's exactly the sort of thing that ADAs find a bit suspicious and so send the testers in...

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