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What are the odds of a random child to become a chess prodigy? The thing about the Polgars is that they decided to raise chess prodigies before their kids were
by facepalm 12y ago
What are the odds of a random child to become a chess prodigy? The thing about the Polgars is that they decided to raise chess prodigies before their kids were born. I think Polgar even advertised for a woman to carry out the experiment with him.
It's strange how little is talked about that experiment. I think it holds an inconvenient truth for many.
(I don't know how much she had trained by the age of 5, so I don't know it it has actual bearings on the 10000h rule. But it certainly shows that high skill is not necessarily inborn).
- haberman 12y ago> What are the odds of a random child to become a chess prodigy? Probably a lot better when the child is the genetic offspring of a chess teacher. It's also confirmation bias: we wouldn't have heard about the experiment if it had failed.
- dllthomas 12y ago"It's also confirmation bias: we wouldn't have heard about the experiment if it had failed." That's not what confirmation bias is. You're thinking "reporting bias" or "selection bias", I think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporting_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporting_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias
- facepalm 12y agoPolgar wasn't a chess teacher before. He pickled chess for the experiment because it is easy to measure and then focused on teaching it.