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Actual title: "Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies?" To further quote the article: “My personal opinion is that exercise is probably much more importan
by mathgeek 8y ago
Actual title: "Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies?"
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.
- drb91 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
- gk1 8y agoI used the title from the NY Times homepage, which at the time of submission had the more definitive version of the title.
- sctb 8y agoWe'll update the headline to the current title, then, which is also in the URL.
- yakuza00000 8y agoSo wouldn't the study just need to compare athelete's children with a rocket scientist's children?
- gsteinb88 8y agoMost of the rocket scientists I know also exercise
- Someone1234 8y agoI 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.
- wgjordan 8y ago> 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).