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Wasn't something like that Malcolm Gladwell's theory for the prevalence of top Canadian hockey players born in the early months of the year?


Malcolm just rehashed something than any coach or school teacher can tell you: the smarter, stronger kids are the older.


Interestingly, that was one of the parts where he had some sort of numbers listed so it seems a little unfair to accuse him of rehashing anecdotal evidence. Not that he's shy about using anecdotal evidence.




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