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Jun 2021
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The NFL’s Race-Norming Problem Is All Ov...

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The NFL recently announced it would stop using “race norming” when assessing who would receive a share of their recent $1 billing settlement for former players. The practice, which assumed Black players started with lower cognitive function and made it harder to collect their share, is standard in many areas of medicine. 


Guest: Darshali Vyas, Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital 


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