Bollocks of course. Typical kind of nonsense you'd expect from epidemiology where correlation is repeatedly confused with causation, and there is the studied refusal to consider confounding factors. As Dr Ray observes: A typical epidemiological fallacy below and very much what is to be expected of Nisbett. He has simply rediscovered the much decried truth long ago set out by Herrnstein & Murray: That middle class people are smarter. It is of course middle class mothers who are most likely to exercise to keep fit etc. So the "keep fit" mothers have smarter babies not because they exercised but because they were middle class. I have critiqued some of Nisbett's other assertions here |
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Mothers who exercise have smarter babies?
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Of course if one does exercise it will result to something really nice for the body. For the mothers who are carrying the baby would influence the health to their babies, thus, it would be great.
G'day Manny
Oh for sure - healthy mum, healthy baby. Or at least a baby that is more likely to be healthy!
But not smarter I suspect.
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