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REAL LIFE NEWS: CRAFTY KIDS FOOL RESEARCHERS

by Hazed

Children in east London who were taking part in a study to measure how much exercise they did fooled the researchers by attaching the pedometers they'd been given to their pet dogs.

About 200 kids were given the pedometers which were supposed to automatically count how many steps they walked and ran. Researchers were surprised at the results they got, which were higher than expected, despite the kids not losing any weight.

Then they discovered the reason: the kids were attaching the gadgets to their dogs' collars.

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