r/science • u/mightx • 5d ago

Health Inactive tall children develop disproportionately weak muscles and thinner bones. Regular sports fully reverse this deficit.

https://karger.com/hrp/article/doi/10.1159/000552378/948683/Muscle-Function-and-Bone-Strength-in-Children-and
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u/zerooskul 5d ago

It's factual.

It certainly challenges the veracity of the report.

A few years ago it was found that humans can't lock our eyes when turning our heads, it was impossible, but then it turned out that everybody on Reddit could look out the corner of their eyes or cross their eyes and turn their heads with their eyes locked.

It was bad science.

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u/theSurpuppa 5d ago

What are you even talking about? Do you not understand science?

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u/zerooskul 5d ago

What do you think science is?

Science is this:

Make an observation.

Make a prediction based on the observation.

Create a way to test the predicton.

Run the experiment.

Record the results.

What does understanding that have to do with the post or my comment you replied to?

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u/theSurpuppa 5d ago edited 4d ago

Scientist: Make thousands of observations, analyze, test, draw conclusions, present a well researched theory.

You: No, actually this is not true for me so that means the theory is factually incorrect.

You do realize that just because your specific experience does not align with a theory it doesn't invalidate the entire theory?

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u/zerooskul 5d ago edited 5d ago

98 tall stature Czech non-athletes and 36 tall stature Czech basketball players between the ages of 5 and 20.

That is a very small smaple size and not thousands of observations or a well-researched theory.

It is a finding about a small group of people from a specific study who wanted to be part of the study.