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Re: [RC] New Endurance Horse Electrolyte Research - Linda Marins----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVM" <suendavid@xxxxxxx> ... Also notice that the pool of horses in each treatment or control group is quite small, an unavoidable consequence of limited research funds. But that also makes conclusions of performance results more difficult to assess, especially since in neither trial were the riders trying to be especially competitive, nor were the two exercise bouts particularly similar (ie, they were still during endurance rides, not repeatable and standardized exercise trials on a high-speed treadmill, for example). When I've done field research in endurance horses, it can take HUNDREDS of participating horses to even begin to overcome the vast number of variables and before a statistically significant trend emerges. That's just the math of it. ... FWIW, I'm going to be trying to summarize a lot of the newer electrolyte research at one or both of my seminars at convention (and there's a lot of new stuff out there... Apropos Susan and Truman's comments on the limited scope of this research, also notice that this paper was published in a *conference proceedings*, not in a peer-reviewed journal. It was published in the AAEP proceedings, not the Journal of the AAEP. The threshold for acceptance of a research paper is far lower for conference proceedings than for peer-reviewed journals. It is usually nothing more than a panel chairman with seats he has to fill looking for anything that looks reasonable and interesting. People looking for tenure always want to publish in a peer-reviewed journal as their first choice because it gets them more brownie points with the faculty review committee. A researcher will settle for a conference proceeding if a) results are preliminary; b) they need to publish *fast* and it is the next available thing; c) they know the research isn't up to journal snuff; or d) because the paper has already been rejected by the journal. Linda Marins =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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