Given your prior knowledge you should be skeptical, but given his experience James Miller should also continue to do this training. It’s seems low cost—no more stressful for Alex than other activities that parents often force their children to partake in and with a potential very large payoff.
Also, James and Alex are going much further than the constraints of what a study can realistically expect of people. To use an analogy. Suppose you did a study on whether a bench press can increase muscle mass. Suppose you didn’t know that bodybuilders exist. Suppose you ran the study for 2 months, with twice per week bench press sessions. Even with a very large sample size, do you think your results would have supported the possibility of extreme body building? I doubt it. It’s very hard to push the average person to the level of training needed to see substantial gains. But it doesn’t tell us what is possible.
Given your prior knowledge you should be skeptical, but given his experience James Miller should also continue to do this training. It’s seems low cost—no more stressful for Alex than other activities that parents often force their children to partake in and with a potential very large payoff.
Also, James and Alex are going much further than the constraints of what a study can realistically expect of people. To use an analogy. Suppose you did a study on whether a bench press can increase muscle mass. Suppose you didn’t know that bodybuilders exist. Suppose you ran the study for 2 months, with twice per week bench press sessions. Even with a very large sample size, do you think your results would have supported the possibility of extreme body building? I doubt it. It’s very hard to push the average person to the level of training needed to see substantial gains. But it doesn’t tell us what is possible.