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Groups Have Equal Innate Potential
Races and the sexes have the same innate distribution of potential, making all group disparities the result of environmental forces.
Mainstream still holds this assumption to be true despite evidence against it
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Time Zones Irrelevant to Sports Globalization
Time zone differences pose no barrier to American sports leagues expanding their fanbases and revenues in Europe.
Experts are divided on whether this assumption was actually false
1 sources
NBA is Pure Meritocracy
Success in the NBA depends solely on natural genetic talent accessible from any socioeconomic background.
Growing recognition that this assumption was false, but not yet mainstream
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Iowa Football Racially Biased Against Blacks
University of Iowa football program exhibits serious racial bias causing black athletes to transfer at higher rates than whites.
Growing recognition that this assumption was false, but not yet mainstream
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RBIs Superior to Runs Scored
Runs Batted In are more valuable than Runs Scored for evaluating baseball players and teams.
Mainstream now strongly agrees this assumption was false
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Noticing NBA Racial Patterns Dangerous
Curiosity about racial overrepresentation in NBA performance is unseemly, inappropriate, and leads to discrimination or worse.
Experts are divided on whether this assumption was actually false
1 sources
Glory Road Broke Basketball Segregation
Texas Western's 1966 NCAA championship with an all-black starting lineup was a deliberate civil rights milestone that triumphed over Southern racism in college basketball.
Experts are divided on whether this assumption was actually false
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Three-Pointers Optimize Basketball Forever
Heavy reliance on three-point shots and layups represents the unbeatable optimal strategy for basketball derived from analytics.
Experts are divided on whether this assumption was actually false
1 sources