The NFL might have moved past denial, but the NCAA and high school sports don't seem to have traveled very far along that path.
It's profoundly sad that institutions of higher learning are promoting activities that they know can cause brain damage and long term disability, just so they can make money and entertain their alumni.
There’s a lot of evidence pointing to cumulative hits being a larger predictor of CTE than concussions. Unfortunately that’s not a problem the NFL can solve so it’s been swept under the rug.
This raises a broader point about Collinearity and whether correlation is actually actionable when the feedback cycle is long. You could easily be working the problem for 20 years before you ever knew you were wrong.
It's profoundly sad that institutions of higher learning are promoting activities that they know can cause brain damage and long term disability, just so they can make money and entertain their alumni.