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I'm having some trouble finding the reference right now, but IIRC, there are some real effects from when during the year you were born -- largely due to cutoff
by Sniffnoy 15y ago
I'm having some trouble finding the reference right now, but IIRC, there are some real effects from when during the year you were born -- largely due to cutoff dates for school, determining how old you are relative to everyone else in your class. I'll have to go actually dig this up later.
- jasonshen 15y agoThis is referenced in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers when he discusses who makes it on to the Canadian Jr National Hockey team: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)