Re:New Study Contradicts Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 Rule
by gwern on Sunday July 06, 2014 @08:43PM
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> later studies on the importance of deliberate practice have almost all come up with lower values for the correlation between deliberate practice hours and performance.
What's also really interesting is the differences in the kind of data used to measure deliberate practice: daily logs, which you'd think be the most accurate, showed the least correlation with performance, while retrospective interviews showed the most. Biases in recollection or researcher allegiance?
> later studies on the importance of deliberate practice have almost all come up with lower values for the correlation between deliberate practice hours and performance.
What's also really interesting is the differences in the kind of data used to measure deliberate practice: daily logs, which you'd think be the most accurate, showed the least correlation with performance, while retrospective interviews showed the most. Biases in recollection or researcher allegiance?