In a time period where concussion awareness has become a critical topic for all ages and all athletes, research is constantly being conducted to verify the most dependent way to measure a reaction time. In the clinical study Effect of Concussion on Clinically Measured Reaction Time, nine division I collegiate athletes were tested on their reaction time clinically and computerized when experiencing a concussion. This experiment was over a two year period, so there is a respectable amount of research and the method used to conclude the experiment is satisfactory, but the participants selected to participate in this experiment needed to be more diverse.The findings in this study revealed that clinically measured reaction times should not replace computerized test, but due to the lack of diversity within the participants , this study is unable to represent an entire population of athletes who have endured concussions.
The results of this study reflects a small population of athletes. With only nine participants being tested, hundreds and thousand of athletes are not being accounted for. Not only is the number of …show more content…
For example, in Table 1 there is no constant number or answer in the sub categories, there are only majorities (Eckner, Kutcher, Richardson., 2011, p.215). This is important because the athletes past history can negatively skew the data causing the computerized reaction time to seem more reliant than clinical reaction time, when really the reliability of the different reaction methods depends on the number of prior concussions, times an athlete lost conscious, experienced posttraumatic amnesia, or number of prior concussions. The lack of separation between each subcategory makes this study unable to reflect on an entire