Reply to “Muscular static strength test performance and health: absolute or relative values?”

Muscular static strength test performance and health: absolute or relative values?

We carefully analyzed Prestes & Tibana’s comments in the correspondence entitled “Muscular static strength test performance and health: absolute or relative values?”, and we appreciate the interest in our work, as well as the possibility of engaging in academic dialogue. Initially, Prestes & Tibana stated the objective and part of the results of our article. They describe the significant differ...

Absolute Identification 1 Running Head : ABSOLUTE IDENTIFICATION IS RELATIVE Absolute Identification Is Relative : A reply to

N. Stewart, G. D. A. Brown, and N. Chater (2005) presented a relative judgment model (RJM) of absolute identification, in which the current stimulus is judged relative to the preceding stimulus. S. Brown, A. A. J. Marley, and Y. Lacouture (2007) found that the RJM does not predict their finding of increased accuracy after large stimulus jumps, except at the expense of other effects. In fact, th...

Muscular static strength test performance: comparison between normotensive and hypertensive workers.

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to compare static muscular strength test performance between hypertensive and normotensive workers, considering the hypothesis that hypertensive individuals have lower strength than normotensive individuals. METHODS The participants consisted of 354 workers (246 men and 108 women) who underwent height, body mass, waist circumference, systolic and diastolic b...

On the relative and absolute strength of a memory trace.

Subjects studied either an 8- or 16-word list and later recalled the items while a voice key recorded each response latency. The trials were partitioned by recall total in order to examine the means and distributions of both latencies and interresponse times as a function of recall total. Each analysis was consistent with the view that an item's absolute strength determines whether it is recall...

Measuring improvement in dyspnoea: should absolute or relative values be used?