ABA Research archive
A personal record describes an event. A baseline describes a performer. Confusing the two produces flattering numbers, weak diagnoses, and training decisions that cannot survive retesting.
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A draw time has little meaning without a distribution and a validity rule. Three compact metrics can turn five repetitions into an honest diagnostic record.
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A test cannot support rankings, standards, or training claims until its scores remain interpretable across repetitions, evaluators, and testing days.
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A course of fire can be reliable, demanding, and professionally administered while still measuring the wrong construct. Validity begins with the claim, not the target.
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TMM is not a slogan or a three-part checklist. It is a feedback system that connects an observable solution, a defensible measurement, and an intervention chosen for the actual constraint.
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Operational experience is indispensable for identifying real problems. It becomes dangerous when memory, status, and survival are treated as proof that a method caused the outcome.
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A smooth training session can produce no durable change, while a difficult session can create superior retention. Learning is what remains after practice support is removed.
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Fatal-crash data show a large survival advantage for belt use, while officer surveys reveal real egress and ergonomics concerns; doctrine must engineer the conflict rather than choose a slogan.
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Exertion changes physiology, but one heart-rate threshold cannot predict accuracy, decision quality, or recovery; the task and the performer determine the effect.
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Aerobic capacity supports repeated work and recovery, but VO₂peak is not a direct shooting score and must be interpreted through task-specific performance.
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