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Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies?

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Why do social skills have any preferred treatment over any other skills? I'd say smart is best measured by IQ.

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?

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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Most people don't exercise because no one is paying them to exercise. If a government wants healthy people, they should pay up $100 per hour to just exercise. I think this is the conspiracy of rich people to make poor people fat so that they get sick and rich people sell medicines, fast food, and garcinia combogia, gym membership (which is just another name for drugs like cocaine, meth etc.... but licensed and regula…

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Most people don't exercise because no one is paying them to exercise. If a government wants healthy people, they should pay up $100 per hour to just exercise. I think this is the conspiracy of rich people to make poor people fat so that they get sick and rich people sell medicines, fast food, and garcinia combogia, gym membership (which is just another name for drugs like cocaine, meth etc.... but licensed and regula…

Wow, I don't know what happened in your childhood that caused you to hate exercise so much. There are so many cries for help in this comment that I want to find you and give you a hug. 1) People will only exercise if someone is paying them to exercise. Hopefully this isn't how you feel for yourself? You don't see any point in exercise until its making you money? Most people exercise because they want to look and feel…

Yup. No need for a gym membership. I can do a lot with a pull-up bar. Bodyweight squats, one leg or two legs. Pushups, planks, bridges.

Dribbling a basketball.

Kettlebells.

The list goes on.

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