GG258 Lecture : GG258 LECTURE NOTES COMPILE.docx
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Malcom gladwell"s iron law of canadian hockey reading from last day. Kids born in the first few months, they are bigger and older. All the way through to the point until in junior. Hockey all of the players are born in the first months. That while this may be true in junior, because there is a strict age cut off in the nhl that should disappear. Tested this hypothesis by looking at the birth months of nhl players the conclusions drawn from this you can see it supports the hypothesis. You can trust the canadian born teams because it would be a bigger sample rather than the olympics. Before nhl players were allowed in the olympics over 50% of the players were born in earlier months until the change. Traditional: passed down through generations embedded in culture. Scientist must be able to make observations (that others can make) that answer the question. Is smoking wrong? (opinions, not empirical to study)
