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The article is missing the control group; how often does this gait appear in other countries high officials?

DiabloD3 11y ago
What other countries have high officials trained by the KGB? Presumably this isn't standard advice given to all military men, because I've never heard of this before.
- grkvlt 11y ago
  I guess Israeli officials (or any other country with conscription) will all have had military training. And, for example, Ariel Sharon was a special forces commander.
Tharkun 11y ago
I read about this yesterday, and spent last evening people watching. Either there are a lot of KGB-trained spies in my neighbourhood, a very high rate of Parkinsons, or there are other possible causes.
- thesz 11y ago
  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/308/308-h/308-h.htm http://www.gutenberg.org/files/308/308-h/308-h.htm I sat for awhile, frozen with horror; and then, in the listlessness of despair, I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever—read the symptoms—discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it—wondered what else I had got; turned up St. Vitus’s Dance—found, as I expected, that I had that too,—began to get interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom, and so started alphabetically—read up ague, and learnt that I was sickening for it, and that the acute stage would commence in about another fortnight. Bright’s disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a modified form, and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years. Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid’s knee.
  - benten10 11y ago
    I realize this is getting off-topic, but that's by far the funniest book I've ever read. I don't remember laughing out loud so consistently (or even, at all) at any other book. If anyone's interested, "Three men in a boat" is HIGHLY recommended. "Three men on a bummel(?)" was OK, but this book hurt my ribs because I laughed so much so hard. : ) Ah, to be able to write like that. Was that his only more-popular book, anyone know (wiki's not helpful)?
an_ko 11y ago
Better: People of the same age without weapons training. High officials of other countries would also have had weapons training, so they'd make a bad control for the claim in question “weapons training → reduced right arm swing”.
- scott_s 11y ago
  For most of America and western Europe, I don't think it's true that most high-level officials will have had weapons training.
mannykannot 11y ago
FWIW, In the clip with both Bush and Putin, Bush is not doing it.

What other countries have high officials trained by the KGB? Presumably this isn't standard advice given to all military men, because I've never heard of this before.

grkvlt 11y ago
I guess Israeli officials (or any other country with conscription) will all have had military training. And, for example, Ariel Sharon was a special forces commander.

Tharkun 11y ago

I read about this yesterday, and spent last evening people watching. Either there are a lot of KGB-trained spies in my neighbourhood, a very high rate of Parkinsons, or there are other possible causes.

thesz 11y ago
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/308/308-h/308-h.htm http://www.gutenberg.org/files/308/308-h/308-h.htm I sat for awhile, frozen with horror; and then, in the listlessness of despair, I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever—read the symptoms—discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it—wondered what else I had got; turned up St. Vitus’s Dance—found, as I expected, that I had that too,—began to get interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom, and so started alphabetically—read up ague, and learnt that I was sickening for it, and that the acute stage would commence in about another fortnight. Bright’s disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a modified form, and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years. Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid’s knee.
- benten10 11y ago
  I realize this is getting off-topic, but that's by far the funniest book I've ever read. I don't remember laughing out loud so consistently (or even, at all) at any other book. If anyone's interested, "Three men in a boat" is HIGHLY recommended. "Three men on a bummel(?)" was OK, but this book hurt my ribs because I laughed so much so hard. : ) Ah, to be able to write like that. Was that his only more-popular book, anyone know (wiki's not helpful)?

an_ko 11y ago

Better: People of the same age without weapons training. High officials of other countries would also have had weapons training, so they'd make a bad control for the claim in question “weapons training → reduced right arm swing”.

scott_s 11y ago
For most of America and western Europe, I don't think it's true that most high-level officials will have had weapons training.

mannykannot 11y ago

FWIW, In the clip with both Bush and Putin, Bush is not doing it.