flipping-the-conditional

Top of Whose Class?

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A new paper in Science — Gullich et al., “Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance” — looked at top performers in athletics, science, math, and music. The headline finding is one most parents would like to hear: among the highest adult achievers, peak performance is negatively associated with early … Read more

Could We Tell?

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The previous post used the phrase “local data” something like thirty times. The phrase did most of the heavy lifting in the argument: local data does not determine global structure, the more holes the underlying object has the more slack between local and global, and so on. I want to start this post by interrogating … Read more