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Accomplished-Fig745 t1_iu4r3bo wrote

As I recall the broadcasters mentioned the 0.1 reaction time was based on the average reaction time of collegiate athletes. Of course there’s two problems with that, 1 is that these are professional athletes who are faster than collegiate athletes, and 2 they should not be using the average reaction time but rather than minimum reaction time. We shouldn’t be penalizing the fastest person for being too fast.

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mbodna t1_iu6puez wrote

From this article it says it was determined by 8 Finnish runners but didn't specify if they were collegiate runners.

"The 100 ms limit is based on research from the 1990s in which the total response time of eight male Finnish sprinters was investigated [2]."

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