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Boy wins science fair with entry concluding that Tom Brady cheats - pRICE cUBE - 01-25-2019
https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Lexington-boy-wins-science-fair-proving-Tom-Bradys-a-cheater-504854011.html
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Gray News) - You can use science to explore the wonders of the universe, illuminate our world and advance the whole of human knowledge.
Or you can use it to prove Tom Brady's a cheater.
The website NFL Draft Diamonds reported this week that Ace Davis, a 10-year-old in Kentucky, won his science fair last week with the project, "Is Tom Brady a Cheater?"
The answer, it turns out, is yes. Science says so.
Ace's dad Christopher Davis posted pictures to Facebook that outline the project with the caption "Hater level: 100."
Ace's hypothesis: "Through various testing measures of different weights (PSI – pounds per square inch) of footballs, we should find that underinflated footballs provide a competitive advantage in a game."
His test results show he and his family members throwing longer and longer passes with lighter and lighter footballs.
He concludes: "Tom Brady is indeed a cheater."
Brady and the Patriots were accused of deliberately deflating footballs to gain an advantage in the 2015 AFC Championship Game against the Indianapolis Colts, a game the Patriots won, in an episode that came to be known as "Deflategate."
An investigation commissioned by the NFL, the Wells Report, ultimately implicated the Patriots in that it could not identify "a set of credible environmental or physical factors that completely accounts for the additional loss in air pressure exhibited by the Patriots game balls as compared to the loss in air pressure exhibited by the Colts game balls."
Brady eventually served a four-game suspension and the Patriots were penalized as a team.
Re: Boy wins science fair with entry concluding that Tom Brady cheats - NewtonMP2100 - 01-25-2019
.....is that also how he got to marry a supermodel.........by cheating....??
Re: Boy wins science fair with entry concluding that Tom Brady cheats - cbelt3 - 01-25-2019
I find hatred of the Pats to be a very patriotic thing.... :devil:
Re: Boy wins science fair with entry concluding that Tom Brady cheats - mrbigstuff - 01-25-2019
"lighter" footballs? hmmm. ok.
Re: Boy wins science fair with entry concluding that Tom Brady cheats - ka jowct - 01-25-2019
mrbigstuff wrote:
"lighter" footballs? hmmm. ok.
Maybe they are just taking out the heavy molecules of air.
Re: Boy wins science fair with entry concluding that Tom Brady cheats - pRICE cUBE - 01-25-2019
ka jowct wrote:
[quote=mrbigstuff]
"lighter" footballs? hmmm. ok.
Maybe they are just taking out the heavy molecules of air.
Perhaps the weight of guilt?
Re: Boy wins science fair with entry concluding that Tom Brady cheats - mikebw - 01-25-2019
I think his experiment is flawed.
https://www.livescience.com/49539-deflated-football-pressure.html
A deflated football has a smaller mass because it has fewer gas molecules inside of it. Assuming that the temperature is 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius), the mass of the air in a football inflated to 12.5 psi is about 0.39 ounces (11 g). A football deflated to only 10 psi has a mass of 0.36 ounces (10.2 g). The difference is about the weight of a paper clip, Eads said.
A difference so small should not make for easily reproducible results when humans are doing the throwing.
Re: Boy wins science fair with entry concluding that Tom Brady cheats - Lux Interior - 01-25-2019
Really?
He won with an entry that basically says, "Water is wet"?
Re: Boy wins science fair with entry concluding that Tom Brady cheats - srf1957 - 01-25-2019
mikebw wrote:
I think his experiment is flawed.
https://www.livescience.com/49539-deflated-football-pressure.html
A deflated football has a smaller mass because it has fewer gas molecules inside of it. Assuming that the temperature is 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius), the mass of the air in a football inflated to 12.5 psi is about 0.39 ounces (11 g). A football deflated to only 10 psi has a mass of 0.36 ounces (10.2 g). The difference is about the weight of a paper clip, Eads said.
A difference so small should not make for easily reproducible results when humans are doing the throwing.
It was raining . The under inflated football was easier to grip .
Re: Boy wins science fair with entry concluding that Tom Brady cheats - Acer - 01-25-2019
p-value?