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Advertising Makes Us Unhappy, The Myth of Maximum Heart Rate, and How Parents Can Help Language Researchers with an App

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How to Calculate Maximum Heart Rate

Most people use the formula that julian mentioned, two 20 minus your age. But did scientists measure thousands of people from divers backgrounds and ottheir heart rates on a graph that mapped exactly on to this formula? No, no, they did not. It was devised in 19 70 by a young physician who was prepping for a conference presentation about how strenuously heart disease patients could exercise.

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