NFL "Race Norming"

[Fredmccallyrtr]

Should the NFL be condemned by its former friends, colleagues and players and then resign?

NFL agrees to race-based brain testing in $1B settlement on concussions

The league accepted changes after an outcry over test score adjustments known as "race-norming," which make it harder for retired Black players to win dementia awards.

www.npr.org

 

[packerzrule]

What in the living hell??

 

[Deep Dish Pizza Goat]

Guys, players wear stuff in the back of their helmets and teams spraypaint messages in the endzone now, it's cool.

 

[ill]

The binary scoring system used in dementia testing — one for Black people, one for everyone else — was developed by neurologists in the 1990s as a crude way to factor in a patient's socioeconomic background. Experts say it was never meant to be used to determine payouts in a court settlement.

The league had agreed in June, amid the uproar, to halt the use of race-norming, which assumes Black players start with lower cognitive function. That makes it harder to show they suffer from a mental deficit linked to their playing days.