But what is is trying to be proven is absolute. What is trying to be proven CAN be subject to be proven.
You should not talk about absolutes or proofs.
I bet you believe in them anytime you board you an airplane.
You cannot talk about airplanes.
You cannot be funny.
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You cannot tell me what I can and cannot be.
Apparently, I did.
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But you cannot…
I can and probably should.
And I’m out, thanks for the bickering. Hopefully we can start a similar thread in the off topic forum where people are less… Like this.
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Good luck with that chico.
Gentlemen: this is my thread, that I started to get people to share and talk about science. I have been pretty relaxed about the ongoing back-and-forth, thus far but that is coming to an end right now.
Please go back and read my OP if you want to continue posting in this thread. Specifically, please read the following:
I don’t care who started it and I don’t care who is right.
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You must be new here.
Don’t be a dick.
You must be new here.
Must I be?
The PWI forum usually does get a little leeway in terms of tangents and “off-topic” side discussions, mostly due to the wide-reaching topics covered, but yeah, there’s really no reason this thread shouldn’t get back to focusing on info instead of pointless sniping.
Post whatever’s interesting to talk about and then debate the content, not the poster. I will say, though, it doesn’t help anything trying to jazz up and dramatize info when posting it. It’s The Science Thread, so maybe try not to be “entertaining”, eye-catching, or emotional when presenting info. Let the material stand or fall on its own merits.
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Couple of studies associating a lack of exercise with negative personality changes:
“Nearly 20 years later a total of about 9,000 people took the same surveys again. Stephan and his team found that subjects who reported being less active had greater reductions on average in conscientiousness, openness, agreeableness and extroversion—four of the so-called Big Five personality traits—even after accounting for differences in baseline personality and health.”
May not bode well with the decreasing activity levels in kids/young adults and a constantly increased ability to stay indoors due to online convenience and automation.
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I’m not usually one for surveys as an experimental method, but I found this one both interesting and disturbing for the exact reasons you had above.
Social media adds a whole other host of influences on a person’s psyche which arguably reinforce or compound the effects of not moving (openness, agreeableness, etc). A 1-2 punch.
This sort of thing does worry me, as there’s been a noticeable trend downward in the overall athletic development of many kids compared to past generations at the same age. It’s been combined with a huge increase in overuse injuries while playing sports…a perfect storm IMO.
I guess the old people know what they are talking about when it comes to going outside.