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Study finds at least 25% of NFL players in sample from 2016-2021 had CTE
Deterministic text analytics computed across all 10 sources. Frequency, entity overlap, and claim overlap — computed counts only. Nothing is rated true or false.
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Frequency Analytics
The most common words and exact phrases across every report in this cluster. Computed counts only.
Top words
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Top phrases
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Entity Overlap
Names detected in the report text: which appear across multiple sources, and which only one source mentions.
Across multiple sources
- NFL · 9 sources
- CTE · 7 sources
- Study · 2 sources
Unique to one source
- British Medical Journal · CBS Sports
- Researchers · ABC News
- Chronic · The Independent
- CTE Condition · The Guardian — Sport
- Symptoms · The Guardian — Sport
- Condition · The Guardian — Sport
- That's · CBS News — Top
- Nearly · CBS News — Top
- Mass General Brigham · CBS News — Top
- Brain · BBC News
- Playing · NPR News
- Image · NPR News
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Claim Overlap
Near-identical sentences found in two or more reports, versus sentences that appear in only one. Text match only — nothing is rated true or false.
Repeated across sources
No sentence appeared in more than one source.
Appears once
- "A study in the British Medical Journal published its findings on Aug." · CBS Sports
- "Researchers analyzed 1,712 former NFL players who died between 2008 and 2021." · ABC News
- "Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a progressive brain disease linked to repeated head impacts Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a progressive brain disease linked to repeated head impacts" · The Independent
- "215 of 235 donated brains showed signs of CTE Condition can only be diagnosed after death Symptoms include problems with memory and mood At least one in four former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 was found to have had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), according to a study released on Tuesday." · The Guardian — Sport
- "Out of the 878 former players who died during that time frame, 235 donated their brains for study, researchers said, with 215 of those donated brains found to have CTE, a degenerative disease that can only definitively be diagnosed after death." · The Guardian — Sport
- "That's a much higher rate than is seen in the general population." · CBS News — Top
- "CTE is a brain disease linked to repeated blows to the head." · CBS News — Top
- "A new study says at least one in four ex-NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had a degenerative brain disease but the true figure could be much higher." · BBC News