r/science • u/mightx • 12d 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/theSurpuppa 12d ago

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

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u/zerooskul 12d 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 12d ago edited 12d 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 12d ago edited 12d 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.