Math majors vs. athletes

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<p>I don’t see anything wrong with either math or athletics. </p>

<p>The reason why people are skinny and unathletic is because they don’t care about their bodies. There is nothing wrong with being good looking it just means you take good care of yourself which has some great health and mental benefits. You should try it. </p>

<p>You basically said in an earlier posts is that people frown upon math and science majors and that only the skinny and unathletic people major in math. Those are huge generalization and basically I through some of my anecdotes to show you that correlation does not equal causation. </p>

<p>As far as squatting 250 being strong, I’ll have to disagree. From the way I was taught for football in High School is that there’s only one proper way to do a squat and that is bend at the knees until your thighs are parallel to the ground and back to the starting position. If people aren’t doing this then they aren’t squatting (unless your a body builder doing “ass to grass” squats).
I’m not an expert on weight lifting by any means, I’ve only been doing it on and off for 6 years and know my way around the gym. 250 pounds say on a regular bench is average. </p>

<p>^Then again my observations may be misconstrued because I go to a Big Ten school; I see a lot of D1 athletes at my school’s gym.</p>

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<p>well look at it this way, why would a person with good athletic genes have poor genes for math? There’s no logical reason that it would be that way. Sure some people say that genes don’t matter but at a very high level, like college/pro athletics, it matters.</p>

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<p>why would an atheletic person NOT major in math? Maybe because our culture suggests that being good at math/science is unattractive and stupid? I have no doubt that there are a good deal of high school atheletes who actually enjoy or are reasonably good at math deliberately downplay it because they think its a “turnoff”. </p>

<p>In addition, many atheletic students in high school consider themselves as “successes”. They’ve become good at a certain skill and they’ve got the girls. I don’t think they would have any motivation to work any harder in college, especially something as tough as math. Why do you think the stereotype holds that most student atheletes major in leisure studies?</p>

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<p>Do you have proof to back up these claims?</p>