Bad Writing, Bad Research, Bad Results

The following headline in today's sports section of the Sun is misleading in every possible way:

"Race found to color umpires' vision when calling strikes."

When you read through the article, you discover that this so-called "research" yielded a shocking difference of ONE per cent.

I have news for you, kids.

One per cent is not statistically significant. One per cent is meaningless.

So-called professors at McGill, U, of Texas and Auburn U. all combined by analyzing 2 million pitches over 3 major league seasons.

For this, they were paid good public money??? This is what institutions of higher learning are concerned with? How did their wives and colleagues keep a straight face when told what they were doing with their time?

Can you say, "Corruption and waste of time?"

Finally, why would anyone write about it? Sloooowwwww Newzzzzzz Daaayyyyy...