Stephen cobley and michael roman created the matcaps algorithm. It calculates how far each swimmer is from their estimated point of peak performance. Cobly did a test run on 700 australian swimmers, all boys, competing in a hundred meter free style. He found no late maturing boys among the top 25% of adolescent swimmers.
Did Malcolm Gladwell blow it in his bestselling book Outliers? What if all he did was write a primer for neurotic helicopter parents? To find out, Revisionist History descends on the University of Pennsylvania to run a roomful of eager students through a mysterious experiment, complete with Sharpies, huge white stickers, and a calculator. It does not end well.
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