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Concerns regarding "Decoding the elite soccer player's psychological profile"

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  • Moore, Kristjan

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* Inexplicably strong or weak correlations between variables * Data for controls consistent with being entirely randomly generated * Unexpected data distributions with highly unusual values and surprisingly similar rangesacross subgroups * Irregularities often driven by extreme data in specific subgroups * Extreme effect sizes between controls and athlete groups * Irregularities only observed for Brazilian sample

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  • Moore, Kristjan, 2026. "Concerns regarding "Decoding the elite soccer player's psychological profile"," I4R Discussion Paper Series 311, The Institute for Replication (I4R).
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:i4rdps:311
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