The Statistical Phenomenon Regression Of An English Victorian Statistician By Francis Galton

Athletes in professional sports get paid a lot of money to play for famous teams. Because they want more money, they are motivated to play better. When they do play better, they get more money. For example, rookies, players that are new to the game, aren’t paid much. However, they want more money to support their life, so they practice more and train to be much more skilled. Coaches then realize they will soon want more money as the years go by. Athletes practice with their team every week, and do the drills that the coaches pick to do. If players don't get better from this, they need to practice on their own time. “It's up to the execution from the athletes” (Neiburg). This shows that athletes must be self motivated. Most of them are, when they aren’t paid much. Most veteran athletes that are already skilled have a high payroll - because of salary caps. Since it is usually cap prohibitive to release a player that gets a significant signing bonus with this model, some teams are willing to include roster bonuses due in the first couple of days of the second contract year (Corry). This illustrates that salary caps don’t allow players to be released right away. So, the player will get more practice with the team, and have more chances after a bad season or two. Even if a player eventually does get released, they wouldn’t be happy, but they’d be self motivated to practice as much as they can to get back on a team. Critics of this idea say that the only way players got into a professional sports league is because they are skilled, and already practiced a lot. Teams are also only looking for skilled players in certain positions they need. However, the reason teams need new players in those positions is because the players that are already in those positions have weaknesses. Since there isn't any signing bonus proration, teams have more cap

Divided into parts on “Opportunity” and “Legacy” the writings of Gladwell focus on shattering the myth that “success is exclusively a matter of merit” (67). As Gladwell exhibits, through the example of Hockey, the common belief is that “Success…is based on individual merit” (17). However, after a thoughtful analysis of precursory, and undeserved opportunities, such as, birth month, time spent practicing due to being selected because of age grouping, and “accumulative advantage[s],” all of the opportunities were critical to the success of the all-star hockey player; not just talent (30). Moreover, due to the arbitrary access to more practice, an individual (like the hockey player example) is allowed more of a chance to develop their skills.

If the two people in questions are not exactly the same in terms of weight and height, a generalized statement that, because one of the individuals has is male and has a larger brain, their whole social group is smarter than the opposing individual’s is not accurate; because the social group variable in not being isolated as unequal factors such as height and weight are contributing to differences in brain size also. Although the answer may appear to be to only compare others of the same height and weight, Gould goes on to explain the complete inaccuracy of science compared to social beliefs of intelligence even further. “Height is partly adequate, but men and women of the same height do not share the same body build. Weight is even worse than height, because most of its variation reflects nutrition rather than intrinsic size-” (Gould 10) is one quote from Gould who supports the complete inaccuracy of measurement. Even when comparing two people of the same weight and height, their body types remain different from each other. Therefore, the idea that someone can assess the physical traits of comparable people to prove social ideas is narrower and more accurate than before, these measurements do not prove that everything is the same on each person’s body; and ultimately, someone cannot accurately make a generalized claim about the two people regarding their

Unlike the victors, it was not unusual for losers to be punished. Severe punishments such as whippings and death were common for those who lost their event or match. “Another unnamed coach was so exasperated when one of his wrestlers did attempt to surrender that he rushed forward and stabbed the athlete with a sharp metal instrument, killing him” (pg 32). Winning the competition was such an honor and losing such a disgrace that many trainers would rather see their athletes dead then admit defeat. Coaches also took extreme measures to motivate their athletes before they competed. Unfortunately, these acts usually played games on the athlete’s psych. Promachus, who competed in pankration, was led to believe that if he won, the girl he loved had promised him her favors. His coach had learned about his feelings towards her and used his emotions to motivate him. Promachus was so enthused when he heard of her intentions if he was victorious that he won his event despite the overwhelming odds against him (pg 32). Olympic athletes were everyday Grecians were valued for their athletic

All my life, I have participated in sports. I ran track and cross country, and played volleyball, basketball, and softball. After all those years in multiple sports, I acquired endless amounts of participation trophies, medals and ribbons. These awards were given to me in hopes that I would continue to engage myself in the sport or to feel like my contributions to the team mattered. The adults might have even hoped I would fall in love with the sport. Unfortunately, that was not the case. I ended up quitting all of those sports excluding softball going into high school. I was not even that bad of a player. I actually was on the A team for a majority of the teams.

Honor means high respect or esteem. Honor means you show someone respect because you admire them for something they have done. Francis Galton was an English explorer born on February 16, 1822 in Birmingham, England and died January 17, 1911 at the age of 88 in Haslemere. Galton wrote more than 340 papers and books. He invented scientific meteorology and developed the first weather map. Galton also invented a device called the Galton Whistle ("Francis Galton - Biography, Facts and Pictures"). He was testing the hearing abilities for different frequencies and eventually got to a pitch so high people couldn’t hear the device but some animals could, like dogs. Now, dog owners and other animals owners use this device to train their pets. However,

In today’s world there are usually two people, athletes and non-athletes. Now out of the millions of sub-categories of humans; whether it be race or gender or preference or nationality, it all comes down to two types of people, those who play sports and those who watch. For those who play there is a whole lot of effort, and little reward. People say, “why can playing for a big-name school not be enough?” or, “You have a scholarship, quite asking for more”. Those who watch, think to themselves, those players probably have the highlife, flying in jets, and being paid money out of pocket. When they could not be further from the truth. For their extra work, and

many young athletes’ perceptions that their parents expect them to be extraordinary and would criticize them if they failed to deliver. The added pressure from coaches to be perfect can also deter young athletes’ focus on doing what is right or doing what will allow them to succeed and ultimately satisfy their parents and coaches desires (Madigan, Stoeber & Passfield, 2016).

As a casual reader of the sports section of this newspaper, you come across many articles depicting the triumphs of local athletes. However, very rarely do these articles describe the actual athlete behind the success. Athletes come in all sorts of sizes and shapes. They range from the incredibly talented to the horribly uncoordinated. Some are great teammates while others would rather be a one man team. Certain athletes seek out attention from the people around them while others are modest and stay in the background. The fact of the matter is that there is a wide spectrum of different types of athletes that exist in this world and no two athletes are exactly the same. However, each can be put

In the article “Rich in Thought: Not Every Olympian Gets Medal,” Richard Paloma mentioned the increasingly self-congratulatory society, which is insisting on the “everyone gets a trophy” custom, particularly in many youth sports league and schools. For instance, the schools which have some “commencement” ceremony and awards to make the students feel special by just moving along to the next grade. The author believes that to build children’s self-esteem, a child must be taught to accept failure and learn from his or her failure to accomplish goals.

For High Performance athletes, there can be a lot riding on their results and performance in competition. If athletes develop an over-reliance on sporting success as a source of self-worth and identity, it can lead to serious emotional issues if things do not go as desired. Athletes often identify their self-worth with their ability to perform, and performance failure has been significantly associated with depression (Taylor, 2015 pg.11; Troijan, 2016, pg. 137) Athletes face many struggles and when something goes wrong it can leave them not knowing where to turn for help. They can be left with they feelings that they are nothing, undeserving, and alone. This may also exacerbate their feelings of seclusion, depression, or grief. Most athletes

Francis Galton was know in psychology for his accomplishments in mental tests and his studies of genetics. Galton began by studying facial expressions of people from all ages. In 1884, he established an anthropometric laboratory for measurements of human form. These labs became the first psychometric clinics. People paid a fee to be examined and then was given a results card when they finished. He performed tests involving taste, touch and auditory. He discovered that as people age, they lose the ability to recognize high pitches. He performed these tests on men and women and showed that men have more powers of discrimination. He developed the tool of questionnaires and two forms of association tests. The first test involved the participant

     Scientific research in child development flourished from the early 1900’s. One major stimulus was the introduction (1916) by the American psychologist Lewis Terman of the test known today as the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test. This test led to a number of studies about children’s intellectual development. In the 1920’s scientists at more than a dozen leading universities began large-scale observational studies of children and heir families; these included the Berkeley Growth Study at the University of California (started in 1929 and still active today), the Fels Growth Study at Antioch College, and the Harvard Growth Studies. All used the longitudinal method, in which the same children are observed and tested at over a specific time period (The Volume Library 1990: Volume 2).

What makes champions in sport? At the end of the day, it is the moment when one stands at the top of the podium, holding up their well-deserved medals and trophies that all elite athletes strive for. Thus, experts have studied this question extensively to see which programs, or by what means, are elite athletes developed to achieve this goal. One of the many aspects to athlete development is the controversial topic of deliberate practice versus deliberate play. Deliberate practice can be defined as “any training activity (a) undertaken with the specific purpose of increasing performance, (b) requiring cognitive and/or physical effort, and (c) relevant to promoting positive skill development” (Cote et al., 2007, p. 185) On the

Either way, Galton influenced researchers to consider taking a scientific focus on their theories of intelligence. One of the researchers Galton influenced was James McKeen Cattell who brought Galton’s ideas to the United States and proposed a series of 50 psychophysical tests (1890). As a matter of fact, Cattell’s psychophysical tests could later not be validated by his student, Clark Wissler (1901). Even theorists that have focused their theories of intelligence on Galton’s views have recognized that Galton had very simplistic views (e.g., Hunt, Frost, Lunneborg, 1973). All things considered, Galton’s controversial views of intelligence (which has since been carried down to present day) have had a profound impact on the area of intelligence.