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Hard to separate nature from nurture when you school your kids on your own area of expertise. Had he tried to make them into expert musicians or downhill skiers
by skywhopper 13y ago
Hard to separate nature from nurture when you school your kids on your own area of expertise. Had he tried to make them into expert musicians or downhill skiers, his experiment might have more weight.
- pixl97 13y agoHow about a child adopted at a young age. Trying to teach the kids something you are not is a different proposition altogether.
- ealexhudson 13y agoWould be difficult to school them in any meaningful way if he was not already proficient. Teaching is hard, particularly if you are trying to do something different to the standard (& therefore supported) model.
- 1337biz 13y agoBut isn't the idea behind the 10,000 hour idea that you need constant high quality feedback and training?
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoNope; just that you've been at it, studying and trying. The (Gladwell) examples are of folks in groups that learned together.
- rjsw 13y agoThe experiment has been tried in downhill skiing too, I can think of several competitors at the Sochi Olympics who were coached by their (not expert skier) fathers.
- gwern 13y agoYou would think he would have adopted, if he was serious about 'made, not born'.
- logical42 13y agoI believe he wanted to try it later in his life (with adoptees) but his wife talked him out of it..