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Who are the Medicine Hat Tigers and Vancouver Giants?
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The best teams in the Canadian Hockey League
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Who are the Medicine Hat Tigers and Vancouver Giants?
The best teams in the Canadian Hockey League
How is Canadian hockey a "meritocracy"?
It is a meritocracy because the best players are separated into better leagues. You are put on teams based on skill level
What is success in hockey based on?
Individual Merit
What assumption do people make about the successful?
People assume it is based on individual personal qualities.
With what do we deeply associate success?
We associate success with the effort of the individual
How does the author, Malcolm Gladwell, feel about personal explanations of success
Thinks they dont work and believes we do owe something to parentage and patronage
What factors does Gladwell believe greatly impacts our success
-where we grew up
-when we grew up
-culture
Who was Roger Barnsley, and what phenomenon did he draw attention to?
He's a physiologist that noticed a strange thing in the age of young hockey players
What did the majority of elite youth and professional hockey players have in common?
Majority of players were born in January,February, and March
What explanation does Gladwell offer for Barnsley's observation?
The age cutoff is January 1, so they have an age and maturity advantage
What happens when a youth hockey player gets chosen for rep squad?
-Better coaching and better teammates
-Plays more games and practices more
-Given clear advantage
Barnsley argues that skewege age distributions exist in the presence of what three factors?
Selection streaming, differentiated experience
What two other sports have a skewed age distribution similar to that of Canadian Hockey? Which sports appear to be immune from this skewed distribution?"
Baseball and European Soccer. Football and basketball
What conclusion did researchers reach about students' birth month and performance on standardized tests?
older children did 4-12% better
What critical opportunity does Gladwell claim hockey players who make it to the professional level have?
Got a big head start that they didn't deserve or earn
