Their lower limit of 10 was also in a test group of 1100 firefighters. 37 of those 1,104 people had a cardiovascular issue.
Globally, 31% of all deaths are CVD related, so it's entirely possible that even those in this 1,104 people who couldn't do 10 push ups were at a generally lower risk anyway.
The 96% figure comes from 36 of those couldn't do more than 40, one of them could. The article doesn't say how many of those 36 could do more than 10. The median age was nearly 40 years old.
Not only that, there is a clear correlation between age and BMI in the pushup groups. 0 - 10 push ups has a median age of 48.4 and a BMI of 33.1 > 31 is 35.1 years and a BMI of 26.8
The stddev gets lower as you go up too, so the 41 is 28 to 42.2 (seeing as how all participants were over 18 in the beginning and the test period was 10 years, the > 41 group is probably skewed towards more people a little younger than 35 and a few older.
With the exception of the 0-10 group and 11-20 group in the "previous smoker" category, the more pushups you can do, the fewer in the group are current or previous smokers.
So you could also say being older and fatter and a smoker is correlated with how many push ups you can do if you're a firefighter.
unless you're looking to grow big bodybuilder tits
Do you pushups with your elbows at your side. That makes the shoulders and triceps do all the work, leaving your man tits out of the equation almost completely. It's also much harder, as you've removed an entire muscle group from the exercise.
If you read the summary, it says "at a time", which implies it is consecutive pushups - no rest between each one. Isn't is harder to do push ups slowly? It's generally a measure of anaerobic fitness. Unless you are so fit that you can sustain the effort through aerobic metabolism, time is also a critical factor in number of reps. People that fit are those who won't see a difference between 40 and 100 pushups.
being able to do 40 push up at a time doesn't require much effort from your heart, does it? Isn't that getting in to the anaerobic performance of your upper body muscles?
From an abstract point of view, with no qualifications to back it up, this seems to me like it happens to be that people who can do this, also do a lot more other stuff. So is the correlation between heart disease and push ups really a correlation between heart disease and X, where there is also a correlation between X and push ups? Where X is, as another poster pointed out, the top < 1% of people in the world, in terms of push-up performance.
Personally, I found it not too difficult to go from 10 push ups to 25. Getting over 25 is hard, requiring either good genes or a lot of hard work training.
CASS doesn't validate that the person lives at the specified address, only that it is a deliverable address. NCOA only works when the addressee goes out of their way to tell USPS that they are moving.
You mean computers and barcode scanners were invented? Barcode scanners and computers have been working together since the mid 70's And very quickly, 25 years later, this guy patents using them for this purpose. "The very first scanning of the now-ubiquitous Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode was on a pack of Wrigley Company chewing gum in June 1974" It took until this guy thought in 1999 - "why don't we put one of those on letters and if they are returned to sender, all we need to do is scan the barcode to update the customer details" He patents it in 2004, because no one else thought of it either in those post-dot-com boom years.
So obvious it was 30 years since barcodes were being used commercially to when this patent was filed.
IANAL, but the post office is delivering the mail - to the return address specified on the mail. The post office received the letter and delivered it according to the instructions on it.
"return to sender" mail doesn't stay the property of the post office indefinitely.
They're counting plays when the song happens to be in a random YouTube video? But they only count a subset of all the songs? Otherwise there would be TV theme songs in the charts too. and random songs played in some kids youtube channel.
That's how healthy competition develops. You have many companies all competing on a relatively level playing field for the same customer base. There's no artificial geographic boundaries. There's no huge cost of entry to the market. There's no excessive wholesale charges to limit competition - the mobile network isn't regulated, but the 3 network operators know the Government will separate them like they did with the incumbent copper network provider if the Commerce Commission sees anti-competitive behaviour.
These are real time systems though, acting faster than the customers. As soon as the competition lowers their price, you follow suit. The result is neither side makes more profit, so they learn not to do that in the future.
Unless you notice that your sales don't decrease when your price is 2c above the competition, but your profit increases 2c. Then your competition does the same. Then you do it again.... Then profit.
Isn't that a bit dodgy? Apple shouldn't even be storing the full credit card number. They should only have a token given to them by their payment provider, that only they can use.
I can understand them wanting email addresses of the people reading their content, purely for matching data. It would be better if Apple provided some kind of email address token service, where the content providers give apple their list of email addresses they want to match, Apple responds with tokens for each address and then they can used that token for analytics. If they didn't have someone's email address before, they don't deserve it until that person willingly gives it to them.
I doubt Apple will want to put in their privacy policy they'll share your personally identifiable information with 3rd parties.
For the article about a car you can't buy in New Zealand. Tesla will take a reservation payment though, with no promise of delivery or any indication of timing, with no use-of-money interest and effectively a promise that if the company fails, you won't get your money back.
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Their lower limit of 10 was also in a test group of 1100 firefighters.
37 of those 1,104 people had a cardiovascular issue.
Globally, 31% of all deaths are CVD related, so it's entirely possible that even those in this 1,104 people who couldn't do 10 push ups were at a generally lower risk anyway.
The 96% figure comes from 36 of those couldn't do more than 40, one of them could.
The article doesn't say how many of those 36 could do more than 10.
The median age was nearly 40 years old.
Not only that, there is a clear correlation between age and BMI in the pushup groups.
0 - 10 push ups has a median age of 48.4 and a BMI of 33.1
> 31 is 35.1 years and a BMI of 26.8
The stddev gets lower as you go up too, so the 41 is 28 to 42.2 (seeing as how all participants were over 18 in the beginning and the test period was 10 years, the > 41 group is probably skewed towards more people a little younger than 35 and a few older.
With the exception of the 0-10 group and 11-20 group in the "previous smoker" category, the more pushups you can do, the fewer in the group are current or previous smokers.
So you could also say being older and fatter and a smoker is correlated with how many push ups you can do if you're a firefighter.
The data is all here https://jamanetwork.com/journa...
At a rate of 80 push ups per minute. That's 3/4 of a second each, until you miss 3
Also, from the article:
The results do not support push-up capacity as an independent predictor of CVD risk
unless you're looking to grow big bodybuilder tits
Do you pushups with your elbows at your side. That makes the shoulders and triceps do all the work, leaving your man tits out of the equation almost completely.
It's also much harder, as you've removed an entire muscle group from the exercise.
If you read the summary, it says "at a time", which implies it is consecutive pushups - no rest between each one.
Isn't is harder to do push ups slowly? It's generally a measure of anaerobic fitness. Unless you are so fit that you can sustain the effort through aerobic metabolism, time is also a critical factor in number of reps.
People that fit are those who won't see a difference between 40 and 100 pushups.
being able to do 40 push up at a time doesn't require much effort from your heart, does it?
Isn't that getting in to the anaerobic performance of your upper body muscles?
From an abstract point of view, with no qualifications to back it up, this seems to me like it happens to be that people who can do this, also do a lot more other stuff.
So is the correlation between heart disease and push ups really a correlation between heart disease and X, where there is also a correlation between X and push ups?
Where X is, as another poster pointed out, the top < 1% of people in the world, in terms of push-up performance.
Personally, I found it not too difficult to go from 10 push ups to 25.
Getting over 25 is hard, requiring either good genes or a lot of hard work training.
CASS doesn't validate that the person lives at the specified address, only that it is a deliverable address.
NCOA only works when the addressee goes out of their way to tell USPS that they are moving.
You mean computers and barcode scanners were invented? Barcode scanners and computers have been working together since the mid 70's
And very quickly, 25 years later, this guy patents using them for this purpose.
"The very first scanning of the now-ubiquitous Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode was on a pack of Wrigley Company chewing gum in June 1974"
It took until this guy thought in 1999 - "why don't we put one of those on letters and if they are returned to sender, all we need to do is scan the barcode to update the customer details"
He patents it in 2004, because no one else thought of it either in those post-dot-com boom years.
So obvious it was 30 years since barcodes were being used commercially to when this patent was filed.
Yes, you can get a patent for successfully inventing an automated version of a completely manual process.
They haven't got a finished product yet, how are they supposed to sell it?
Except no one thought of it for hundreds of years until this guy did.
IANAL, but the post office is delivering the mail - to the return address specified on the mail.
The post office received the letter and delivered it according to the instructions on it.
"return to sender" mail doesn't stay the property of the post office indefinitely.
So the workers stay in India and the USA crumbles from a lack of cheap workers?
Sounds like a good idea actually.
They're counting plays when the song happens to be in a random YouTube video?
But they only count a subset of all the songs? Otherwise there would be TV theme songs in the charts too. and random songs played in some kids youtube channel.
That's how healthy competition develops. You have many companies all competing on a relatively level playing field for the same customer base.
There's no artificial geographic boundaries. There's no huge cost of entry to the market. There's no excessive wholesale charges to limit competition - the mobile network isn't regulated, but the 3 network operators know the Government will separate them like they did with the incumbent copper network provider if the Commerce Commission sees anti-competitive behaviour.
The employees got paid.
All the contractors got given a big fuck you.
Why not do both?
"macs dont get viruses"
These are real time systems though, acting faster than the customers. As soon as the competition lowers their price, you follow suit. The result is neither side makes more profit, so they learn not to do that in the future.
The algorithms are communicating with each other through the prices they constantly alter.
Unless you notice that your sales don't decrease when your price is 2c above the competition, but your profit increases 2c. ...
Then your competition does the same.
Then you do it again.
Then profit.
Isn't that a bit dodgy?
Apple shouldn't even be storing the full credit card number. They should only have a token given to them by their payment provider, that only they can use.
I can understand them wanting email addresses of the people reading their content, purely for matching data. It would be better if Apple provided some kind of email address token service, where the content providers give apple their list of email addresses they want to match, Apple responds with tokens for each address and then they can used that token for analytics. If they didn't have someone's email address before, they don't deserve it until that person willingly gives it to them.
I doubt Apple will want to put in their privacy policy they'll share your personally identifiable information with 3rd parties.
For the article about a car you can't buy in New Zealand.
Tesla will take a reservation payment though, with no promise of delivery or any indication of timing, with no use-of-money interest and effectively a promise that if the company fails, you won't get your money back.
Don't worry, Amazon won't be filming the LOTR series here.
Because they originally agreed to $1.5B, now they say they won't come unless they get $3B and officials are getting fed up.