No, it was conducted by football helmet manufacturers
Maybe next time you will actually take the 5 minutes to read it and if you had you would have known that it was actually conducted by the National Federation of State High School Associations. The data was collected from all high school sports. I found out about it from the Athletic Trainer at my Son's high school when my son was concussed during this past wrestling season. Apparently high schools in VA are required to report ALL injuries sustained during athletic competition to the Virginia High School League (governing body for high school sports in Virginia). He was the one that told me girls soccer has the highest concussion rate of all high school sports.
Assuming most - if not all states have this requirement for liability purposes, the data would not be hard to mine and the source of the data would not be biased.
Comparing womens soccer to the NFL. You can make up whatever you want but they are asking him about a report of concussions IN THE NFL and how the NFL manipulated the data.
His response to the NYT investigation was to be a denier. He is taking the path of the NFL, which I am sure you have criticized. Is Goodell's handling of concussions wrong? Kraft is now getting in line behind it, that is what is embarrassing
It maybe semantics but you stated that Kraft compared the NFL to women's soccer, he did not he generalized about the safety of the game of football. Nothing in his statement was inaccurate or not true. You can vary your opinion on his life lesson's being worth the risk remark. But nothing else in the portion of his statement is debatable. One can question if they are doing enough to minimize concussions, but again that is a personal preference argument.
Yes, I think the league manipulated the data probably purposely as well as inadvertently in the study referenced by the NYT. But everyone has blame in that game, owners, coaches, players and the fans. Name one owner who isn't toeing the party line on concussions? Not defending him or the league. But that is not the reason that you stated in your opening post for him being an embarrassment. You used his point about womens soccer, which was an accurate and valid point in the context he used it.
And I'll leave it up to you to decide if you want to believe the NFL and its numbers or not, but in 2015 according to the league 271 concussions were reported from both practice and games. During the season 61 folks are on the roster (53 roster, 8 practice squad) if you do the percentage on that it comes out to 7.2% of NFL players were diagnosed with a concussion in 2015, and that number would be lower if you were to add the training camp roster of 90 plus the players that are cut, signed, IR'd etc... high school girls soccer is 14.8% of players based on the study.
I'm not arguing CTE, ALS, general brain damage etc... because nobody really knows the true number or the true extent of the impact simply because the technology doesn't exist yet to either diagnose these issues or a true independent long term study hasn't been done - particularly CTE - which can't be diagnosed until the player dies and donates his brain to science. I'm sure someone is working on a device that will detect CTE and some day in the near future we will know. But for the purposes of
this discussion about concussion's Kraft's statements are true and accurate.
And I probably won't respond after this post as I don't think any amount of fact will change your opinion about concussions in women's soccer vs football.