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https://openparachute.wordpress.com/2016/07/26/84-wada-sports-doping-stats-sorted-not-by-me-nina-kouprianova/ I presented the most recent official data from WADA in my article . This showed that the proportion of positive doping tests for Russian athletes was just less than average for the whole world. More importantly, there are a number of nations with a higher proportion of positive doping tests than the Russian Federation – including India, France, Belgium, Mexico and Turkey. Yes, the data was for 2014. It did not (could not) cover the current Russian doping scandal or the McLaren report.
Mark: A graphic which appears in open parachute demonstrates using WADA data that doping in the Russian Federation in 2014 was only marginally worse than that recorded for the United States, about half what was recorded for France, and nearly identical to that recorded for Australia, while Belgium with at least four times the offenses recorded for Russia. But for its New York Times report, hard-hitting and influential, editors chose 2013 data, which made Russia look much, much worse. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/sports/russian-athletes-part-of-state-sponsored-doping-program-report-finds.html I don’t have any way of knowing how WADA compiles its statistics, but this graphic was plainly cherry-picked to inflame readers. That shows you that Russia’s higher number of positives likely results from Russia’s being tested more frequently than any other country except China. But when you resort the data as Nina Kouprianova did, by % positive, Russia is 19th in the world, after Norway, Poland, France and Sweden and just above Australia and Canada. This suggests the way the data are displayed is also being used to push the reader to a conclusion.
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