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"Selecting players based on a genetic lottery" – a conversation with Professor Sean Cumming

The Talent Equation Podcast

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Gymnastics - Is There a Selection Bias?

The small and lighter you are, your power to weight ratio is such that it enables certain, say, gymnastic action in certain ways. Hence why there's such a preponderance of what you might consider to be very diminutive. In ballet as well, if you're certainly going to be doing any dancing with partners, they're going to want somebody who’s going to be realtably small... But super powerful as well. Yeah. It's an interesting one with gymnast. The there's a fantastic book which is called Little Girls in Pretty Box. And I highly encourage anybody to take a look at that because it talks a lot about the issues around growth and m

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