As the population base of weightlifting competitors grows, more extreme statistical outliers appear, driving up world records independent of true environmental or genetic shifts.
Evidence
Evolution of Athletic Records: Statistical Effects versus Real Improvements (ResearchGate)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Intelligence is malleable and shaped by environment, not fixed by heredity — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 54