Re:Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies?
by gk1 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @11:32AM
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I used the title from the NY Times homepage, which at the time of submission had the more definitive version of the title.
Re:Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies?
by sctb on Thursday May 10, 2018 @11:38AM
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We'll update the headline to the current title, then, which is also in the URL.
Re:Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies?
by wgjordan on Thursday May 10, 2018 @11:55AM
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> If the author of the article specifically phrased it as a question [...]
Small but important correction: authors typically don't get to specifically phrase the title of their article, that is usually controlled by the editor (or some clickbait-optimizing a/b testing algorithm to maximize revenue).
Re:Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies?
by yakuza00000 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @11:44AM
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So wouldn't the study just need to compare athelete's children with a rocket scientist's children?
Re:Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies?
by gsteinb88 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @11:47AM
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Most of the rocket scientists I know also exercise
Re:Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies?
by Someone1234 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @12:02PM
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I know a handful at Boeing (inc. family) and they're pretty representative of the American male population for their ages (meaning some healthy, some less healthy, with more in the latter than the former categories).
By the way, I'm talking literal rocket engineers in the sense that they work on ICBMs and counter systems as contractors for the US Government.
To further quote the article: “My personal opinion is that exercise is probably much more important” than mental stimulation for altering brains and gene expression and potentially even the aptitudes of one’s offspring, Dr. Fischer says.
If the author of the article specifically phrased it as a question, let's not jump to making a definitive statement by changing the title.