{"id":4119,"date":"2011-11-20T13:09:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T17:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2011-11-26T22:26:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T02:26:33","slug":"sorry-those-of-you-told-you-were-talented-effort-still-matters-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=4119","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, those of you told you were talented: Effort still matters much more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Hambrick and Elizabeth J. Meinz, arguing that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/20\/opinion\/sunday\/sorry-strivers-talent-matters.html\">Talent Matters<\/a>\u00a0in today&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0Sunday review section:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But working memory capacity made a statistically significant contribution as well about 7 percent, a medium-size effect<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was in comparison to total practice time, which contributed &#8220;nearly half of the performance differences.&#8221; This is from a Meinz and Hambrick <a href=\"http:\/\/pss.sagepub.com\/content\/21\/7\/914.short\">2010 article in Psychological Science<\/a>\u00a0about piano performance, ((Added 11\/26\/11: I forgot to note in writing this to indicate that the study was about rated piano performances.)) with the 7% reference to the increased variance in performance ratings explained when you add the working-memory measure to the practice-time measure.<\/p>\n<p>I would not call it a &#8220;medium-size effect&#8221; given the dominance of practice time over the working-memory measure. It&#8217;s much smaller than the effect of practice (which accounts for 45% of the variance). My quick reading as an outsider to the field: Meinz and Hambrick look like they&#8217;ve set up a straw-man argument. Does anyone really think effort is all that matters, or just that it matters much more than anything you could call native talent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Hambrick and Elizabeth J. Meinz, arguing that\u00a0Talent Matters\u00a0in today&#8217;s New York Times\u00a0Sunday review section: But working memory capacity made a statistically significant contribution as well about 7 percent, a medium-size effect This was in comparison to total practice time, which contributed &#8220;nearly half of the performance differences.&#8221; This is from a Meinz and Hambrick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-comments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-14r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4123,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions\/4123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}