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Funny how HN eats up an n=38 study when it confirms their biases as opposed to when it doesn’t.

Ah yes, dance being the superior exercise, I have to admit my father engrained it into me as a child.

I meant HN’s irresistible catnip being anything that contradicts mainstream conventional wisdom — not dance specifically.

I think HN also has a very strong anti-sports leaning, especially for “traditional” sports.

If something is published, even in the soft sciences, it is always an uphill struggle on HN to criticize the paper.

At the same time one can quote Feynman on social sciences or link to the relevant xkcd. Independent minds ...