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Re:What Happens to Spelling Bee Champions When They Grow Old? by learc83 on Saturday July 13, 2019 @01:49PM (#20429240)
There was a Doctor, a Bio-statistician, an attorney, and a radio reporter. There were 2 English related academics in the article (and one professor of Classics with a Ph.D. in Ancient Philosophy), so that's definitely overrepresented, but it was more diverse than I would have expected.
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Re:What Happens to Spelling Bee Champions When They Grow Old? by sytelus on Sunday July 14, 2019 @03:03AM (#20432106)
It's unfortunate the article headline is the question but there is no real conclusion drawn in the article. It's just bunch of interviews with past winners. It's apparent that Bee winners have unsurprisingly great memory capacity, ability to fast search their memory and build much finer predictor model of data they consume. So they excel at professions that requires these attributes which are pretty much all science/tech/literature/law professions.
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Re:What Happens to Spelling Bee Champions When They Grow Old? by bane on Saturday July 13, 2019 @11:43PM (#20431515)
However, one might argue the non English ones require lots of memorization.
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