Hit for six: Summary of rapid responses

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7454.1500-c

BMJ 2004;328:1500 (19 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7454.1500-c

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Hit for six

Summary of rapid responses

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Abbasi and Khan's analysis of the effects of Pakistan batsmanJaved Miandad's dramatic match-winning six off the last ballin a one day match that his side had looked like losing to Indiauntil that delivery, resulted in an unusually high number ofresponses.¹ Most of the more than 70 correspondents were unitedthat the paper was entirely misplaced in a medical journal andshould have encountered the same fate as most other submittedmanuscripts.

Some even argued that it showed "laddishness" at the BMJ. Othersadditionally criticised the chosen statistical analysis as unsuitableor pointed out the lack of confounders.

Cricket fans engaged in mostly humorous, but none the less detailed,descriptions and discussions about the various merits of India'sand Pakistan's teams, the achievements of individual players,and the potentially tremendous benefits of various kinds oflarge scale sporting events for the health (or psyche) of a. . . [Full text of this article]

Birte Twisselmann, technical editor

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