Posted on 05/16/2021 5:26:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The NFL has a $1 billion compensation program for players who sustain brain injuries while competing in the league, however, the NFL also has a secret algorithm it uses to determine the level of dispensation awarded to each injured athlete, and argues in court that it is correct to take into consideration what it maintains is the lower average “cognitive skills” of black players compared to other races. While former and current NFL players who suffer from dementia or other brain injuries are entitled to compensation from the NFL if their injuries were sustained while competing in the league, the NFL also argues that it is correct to assume that black players have lower “cognitive skills” on average, and this should be taken into consideration when awarding compensation. However, former Washington running back Ken Jenkins, 61, and his wife Amy Lewis, argue in U.S. District Court that awarding less compensation to black people is an example of inequality.
Detractors say the NFL’s algorithm is an example of “race norming,” and according to Newsweek, New York University Medical Ethicist Art Caplain explains, “Norming by race is not the stance that the NFL ought to take. It continues to look as if it’s trying to exclude people rather than trying to do what’s right, which is to help people that, clinically, have obvious and severe disability.”
Meanwhile, “The NFL’s scoring algorithm asserts that black men have lower cognitive skills to begin with and has impeded the ability for former black players to attain awards from the league’s settlement as they are required to score significantly lower than their white counterparts.” The NFL generally began admitting cognitive deficiencies could be caused from professional football in the early 2010s, but now challenges claims of cognitive injury regularly. In one high profile case,...
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That will leave a mark.
You cannot say that, it’s against all the rules, you learned in school.
Sounds to me like that old southern-born politician from the 1850s - Abraham Lincoln.
Wow. The NFL supports The Bell Curve. Whodathunk it?
The National File is referencing the following story on MSN:
LOL!!! Well played.
They are telling the truth.
That said, not sure how that legally equates to they deserve lesser payouts than whites.
That also said, I hope the nfl fails miserably. Dead to me, forever.
This has to be satire.
Why does the NFL even have $1 billion compensation plan for brain injuries?
Doesn’t that add to the argument that football is a dangerous contact sport? Besides let each player sign a waiver before they take that million dollar paycheck. Let each player take their chances.
The NFL is dead to me. This is just a few more nails in their coffin.
Wow. They didn’t administer IQ tests or anything. Went straight for the skin color.
Let’s see how the front office plays this one. LMAO!
Nuke clouds soon over NFL HQ in NYC as the commish gets burned in effigy by BLM and the Antifa crowd down in Times Square and out in front of the HQ. But, they should tell that to the likes of the black gentlemen who have given us some of our great works in the sciences, math and schools. Dr. Walter Williams and others are very smart men. Dr. King, while not a nuke scientist, was a smart fellow also, plus a republican!! The NFL is going to hate the day they put this out. Oh, by the way, who cares about the NFL. I don’t watch anymore anyway.
Last comment.
A good lawyer would argue then, that blacks deserve MORE comensation rather than less, as every point they lose is a lot more devastating to them than whites, if you assume they are starting with less ability in the first place.
IE for a guy with $50 losing 25 dollars is a lot worse than a guy with $200 losing $25.
You should not make fun of LeBron James, cause he is in the NBA
I would like to see the NFL make that argument to a jury. You’d need a calculator with exponents to measure the verdict.
If you start with less, you end with less, eh?
Turd, meet Punch Bowl.
Colin Kaepernick, case in point.
This will be better than watching a football game!
NFL vs NFLPA and BLM
Gonna need LOTS of popcorn!
Cognitive impairment is measured by the person taking a written test developed years ago. This results in a cognitive "score" that either shows normal cognition or some level of impairment.
However, different groups score differently among people with normal cognition. The most common reason is if the person is is not a native English speaker because the test was written in English by a native speaker. So, the resulting score has to be "normed" for these differences. Otherwise, to take the present case as an example, a Black person may be scored as impaired even if their test results fall within the range of normal cognition for their group, which would result in a non-impaired person being compensated.
That said, I have absolutely no intention of arguing on behalf of the NFL for a host of reasons. In fact, I'm rather enjoying their pain.
That won’t fly
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