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>but that every way you can cut up demographics (age, race, sex, nationality) will have the same bell curve of talent. No. There is not data to support this be
by bluthru 8y ago
>but that every way you can cut up demographics (age, race, sex, nationality) will have the same bell curve of talent.
No. There is not data to support this belief, and the problem becomes when people expect this result and make rules to create this outcome.
- danans 8y ago> No. There is not data to support this belief, At least with things like chess playing and related abilities, there is no data to suggest the opposite belief either. Any observations that we could use at sufficient scale are massively confounded by other huge environmental variables.
- bluthru 8y agoLet's take an easy one: basketball. There are more white high school basketball players but more black college basketball players. Are you claiming that's 100% environmental?
- danans 8y agoI never said it was 100% environmental (those are your words). I said determining the cause of high ability in things like chess is not straightforward because of the confounding environmental factors. Just because your cherry picked example of basketball has an obvious first order physical correlation to performance (height) doesn't mean it's comparable to chess. And your example also ignores the fact that white students tend to have more avenues to access college than black students, so don't need basketball programs nearly as much.