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I'm willing to bet most gifted kids are born in the first half of the year, and most not so smart ones in the second half. Same in sports by the way: most "gif

I'm willing to bet most gifted kids are born in the first half of the year, and most not so smart ones in the second half. Same in sports by the way: most "gifted" players are born at the start of the year: https://www.google.com/amp/s/fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-athletes-birthdays-affect-who-goes-pro-and-who-becomes-a-star/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/fivethirtyeight.com/features/wh... Conclusion: at young ages, you should be very careful what you call "gifted" when you place kids with almost 1 year difference in the same group.

wooque 4y ago
Pure bullshit, I was top 1% in school and I was born in December
- koonsolo 4y ago
  A single case doesn't invalidate the statistics of a larger group. You being top 1% should know that.
  - YesWeWill 4y ago
dekleinewolf 4y ago
My n=1 is that I was always both the youngest and the smartest.
MerelyMortal 4y ago
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-athletes-birthdays-affect-who-goes-pro-and-who-becomes-a-star/amp/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-athletes-birthdays-... Link with google removed. (whenever you copy and paste it, you can just delete the "www.google.com/amp/s/" part and the URL will now point to the real website.)