t-and-f: Re: How much talent/genetics do you need?

2001-05-26 Thread Jon Entine
One problem with this thesis: you assume that if ones talent is slow to emerge except with hard training equates with not being at the top of the talent scale. That's a huge assumption, not testable, and therefore specious. The very definition of talent is that it is there. I believe you confuse

t-and-f: Re: How much talent/genetics do you need?

2001-05-26 Thread alan tobin
Interesting Jon. I'll give you one thing, you sure do make people think and bring up interesting conversations. You bring up something interesting. Just how testable is talent/genetics? If a high school runner runs extremely well off of limited training (Kennedy) one would assume that runner

t-and-f: Re: How much talent/genetics do you need?

2001-05-26 Thread Jon Entine
On 5/26/01 7:08 PM, alan tobin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting Jon. I'll give you one thing, you sure do make people think and bring up interesting conversations. You bring up something interesting. Just how testable is talent/genetics? If a high school runner runs extremely well off of