Goldman's dilemma, or Goldman's dilemma, is a question posed to elite athletes by doctors, osteopaths and journalist Robert Goldman, asking if they would take a drug that would guarantee them an outsider success common in sports, but causes them to die after five years. In his research, as in a previous study by Mirkin, about half of the athletes responded that they would take the drug, but modern research by James Connor and co-workers has yielded a much lower rate, with athletes having an acceptance level of dilemmas similar to the general Australian population.
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History
In the 1970s, Gabe Mirkin reported that more than half of the top runners he polled would receive the following proposal: "If I can give you a pill that will make you an Olympic champion and also kill you in a year, will you take?". This surprising result prompted Bob Goldman to ask the world-class athletes in electric power struggles and sports with a similar question: "If I have a fantastic magic drug so if you take it as soon as you will win every competition you will enter from the Olympic Games to Mr. Universe, for the next five years but it has one small weakness, it will kill you five years after you pick it up, will you still take the medicine? "He also found that more than half said they would take it. This result is consistent in its findings over the period 1982-1995. cited in
Due to the staggering implications they hold around doping in sports, Mirkin and Goldman's results are widely reported, but also criticized.
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Further research
In 2009, Connor et al. reported that members of the Australian public surveyed by telephone strongly rejected Goldman's dilemma. The authors' conclusion at the time was that athletes differed greatly from the general public in terms of their attitudes toward risk and victory. However, subsequent surveys they conducted on elite level tracks and field events in the US showed similarly low (about 1%) of the acceptance of victory propositions guaranteed by illegal drug use followed by death. If the proposed drug is legal but deadly, about 6% will take it, and if it is illegal but not harmful, about 12% say it will take it. They explain this difference in terms of changing attitudes in sports, both due to increased understanding of doping risks and the development of a clearer moral attitude on doping.
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