Discounting other influences!
Would you please look at the following sentence and explain the meaning of the parts I have underlined and boldfaced? BTW, is it "boldfaced" or "bold-faced"? Thank you.
Cycling helps you live longer
Studies found those who did the equivalent of just three 45-minute rides a week were nine years 'biologically younger' even after discounting other influences!
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"Discounting other influences" means adjusting the numbers to compensate for other factors in the person's lifestyle. For example, perhaps someone who has a good diet is expected to be "biologically younger" than someone with a bad diet, irrespective of whether one cycles and the other doesn't. This effect would need to be factored out of the data.
- "Discounting other influences" means adjusting the numbers to compensate for other factors in the person's lifestyle.
- For example, perhaps someone who has a good diet is expected to be "biologically younger" than someone with a bad diet, irrespective of whether one cycles and the other doesn't.
- This effect would need to be factored out of the data.
- In practice, the media is awash with totally bogus "X causes Y" claims when in fact X and Y are both caused by Z.
- Many people do not understand that X and Y occurring together does not necessarily mean that one causes the other.
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"Discounting other influences" means adjusting the numbers to compensate for other factors in the person's lifestyle. For example, perhaps someone who has a good diet is expected to be "biologically younger" than someone with a bad diet, irrespective of whether one cycles and the other doesn't. This effect would need to be factored out of the data.
In practice, the media is awash with to
0teal lime BTW, is it "boldfaced" or "bold-faced"?
The OED does not even list the verb, and their latest citation for the (hyphenated) adjective is from the turn on the century—the last century—so no help there. The modern online dictionaries seem to prefer the one-word form. U.S. English hates such hypens, so use "boldfaced" there. I would use it in
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