Table 5.
Participants were asked to indicate in what context enhancement may be considered fair or unfair to use.
Primary classifiers | All unfair | All fair | Depends on the enhancer | Depends on the situation | Depends generally |
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Additional classifiers | |||||
Legality/against rules | 1 | 3 | 27 | 13 | 9 |
Availability | 1 | 1 | 27 | 14 | 8 |
Treat it the same as real sports | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Only when performance is really enhanced | 0 | 1 | 53 | 19 | 19 |
Only when medically necessary | 2 | 1 | 31 | 44 | 9 |
Side effects on health | 0 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 11 |
Only in tournaments/high level play | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 2 |
Only food/accepted drugs/natural | 0 | 0 | 47 | 7 | 0 |
The table displays the frequency of replies that fell into certain categories. Additional classifiers were used to further describe the responses; for example, a person may state it depends on the enhancer in question, and clarify in addition that they would be fine with people using pharmaceuticals only for medical reasons. Consequently, the secondary classifiers give nuance to the primary meaning of a response to the question. Note that one response may be coded with more than one additional classifier.