New Study Contradicts Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 Rule

Re:New Study Contradicts Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 Rule by Dewie on Monday July 07, 2014 @05:54AM (#7997978)

It's asinine to write about and promote such a result as "10,000 hours"[1] when the result was really that it varies a lot from skill to skill. Using some constant number like 10,000 gives exactly the idea that there is some hard-and-fast rule to the amount of time needed to practice in order to attain some skill in some endeavour.

[1] Whether that was the author himself or the various people that that wrote second/third hand articles about it.

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Re:New Study Contradicts Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 Rule by PM_Tech on Friday July 11, 2014 @05:30AM (#8019396)

Does employment in a CS career mean that you must be prescriptive in every aspect of your life?

The 10,000 hours is a rough guide to a general consensus of sporting and professional pursuits.

It is not appplicable to all people in all walks of life.

Sometimes I fear for the sanity of coders; how do you people function without technical specifications telling you what to do??

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