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Is it just me or does that title not parse at all. It should be something like "Beautiful men and women are more likely to have higher IQs"
by stonemetal 16y ago
Is it just me or does that title not parse at all. It should be something like "Beautiful men and women are more likely to have higher IQs"
- corin_ 16y agoYeah, you can say "more likely to be smart" but not "more likely to be smarter", that's the grammatical problem. Guess it was written by an ugly person :/
- petercooper 16y agoYeah, though the unterminated list is a frequent pattern in headlines (especially in newspapers or other very "journalisty" areas). Say, something like: "Ruby, Python, C All On The Up" I find it a bit archaic now - it has a certain early 20th century air to it. Two real examples: "Apple, Microsoft Are Megabrand Kingpins in Social Radar Index" - http://adage.com/article?article_id=139386 http://adage.com/article?article_id=139386 "Twitter, Facebook are victims of 'single, massively coordinated attack'" - http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/06/twitter-facebook-victims-of-single-massively-coordinated-attack/ http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/06/twitter-facebook-victims-o...
- stonemetal 16y agoActually it looks like they wrote the title twice then dropped both copies in the blender to come up with something unique. "Beautiful men, women are more likely to have higher IQs" or "Beautiful men, women are smarter too" either of those I might have misinterpreted but understood, but the resulting title smoothie is just not coherent. Now on about the actual topic. Could this be an instance of correlation and not causation? Exercise is good for the brain. Exercise makes you look better. Therefore people who exercise both look better and are smarter on average.