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On the Implications of a Sex Difference in the Reaction Times of Sprinters at the Beijing Olympics

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  • David B Lipps
  • Andrzej T Galecki
  • James A Ashton-Miller

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Elite sprinters offer insights into the fastest whole body auditory reaction times. When, however, is a reaction so fast that it represents a false start? Currently, a false start is awarded if an athlete increases the force on their starting block above a given threshold before 100 ms has elapsed after the starting gun. To test the hypothesis that the fastest valid reaction times of sprinters really is 100 ms and that no sex difference exists in that time, we analyzed the fastest reaction times achieved by each of the 425 male and female sprinters who competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. After power transformation of the skewed data, a fixed effects ANOVA was used to analyze the effects of sex, race, round and lane position. The lower bounds of the 95, 99 and 99.9% confidence intervals were then calculated and back transformed. The mean fastest reaction time recorded by men was significantly faster than women (p

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  • David B Lipps & Andrzej T Galecki & James A Ashton-Miller, 2011. "On the Implications of a Sex Difference in the Reaction Times of Sprinters at the Beijing Olympics," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 6(10), pages 1-5, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0026141
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026141
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