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Effects of Exercise on First Walking
Description
An experiment to see if special exercises help babies learn to walk sooner
Format
A dataset with 24 observations on the following 2 variables.
Group | Treatments: exercise control, final report, special exercises, or weekly report |
Age | Age (in months) when first walking |
Details
Scientists wondered if they could get babies to walk sooner by prescribing a set of special exercises.
Their experimental design included four groups of babies and the following treatments:
Special exercises: Parents were shown the special exercises and encouraged to use them with
their children. They were phoned weekly to check on their child's progress.
Exercise control: These parents were not shown the special exercises, but they were told to
make sure their babies spent at least 15 minutes a day exercising.
Weekly report: Parents in this group were not given instructions about exercise. Like the
parents in the treatment group, however, they received a phone call each week to check on
progress.
Final report: These parents were not given weekly phone calls or instructions about exercises. They reported at the end of the study.
Source
Zelazo, Phillip R., Nancy Ann Zelazo, and Sarah Kolb (1972), “Walking in the Newborn," Science, v. 176, pp. 314-315.