Three is Better than One – A Call to Consider Triangulation in Sports Science and Sports Medicine

Achieving a comprehensive understanding of a particular phenomenon is a key concern of science. However, the inherent complexity of real-world phenomena can rarely be captured by a single theory, study, or assessment method. Therefore, it is necessary to approach a particular phenomenon from different perspectives to make robust and reliable assumptions about it (5, 16). Such an approach, which combines evidence from different sources to address the same phenomenon/research question, is widely referred to as triangulation (7, 25).