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Re:Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies? by shbm on Thursday May 10, 2018 @12:55PM (#17040645)
How do you even define smart? Is it quantified by the IQ tests? Does smartness include the factor of social skills(EQ) and how someone may present himself or herself in a social situations. How do you decide what's smart and what's not smart?
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Re:Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies? by lostmsu on Thursday May 10, 2018 @01:25PM (#17040993)
Why do social skills have any preferred treatment over any other skills? I'd say smart is best measured by IQ.
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Re:Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies? by shbm on Thursday May 10, 2018 @03:48PM (#17042357)
What do you exactly measure by comparing IQs? A person who does not do well on math test can become much more "successful" than a person who does. How does IQ really correlate with success?
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Re:Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies? by lostmsu on Thursday May 10, 2018 @08:37PM (#17044117)
It correlates a lot, actually. It even may be one of the best predictors (if not the best, I dunno honestly).
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Re:Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies? by Kevin_S on Thursday May 10, 2018 @02:54PM (#17041895)
They should both be important is his point. And measurements for IQ (and EQ frankly) aren't very reliable. His point seems to be that "smart" is not really measurable as we don't include EQ and our measurements of IQ are poor as well.
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