Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture : Kin 1080b - Part 3.docx
5 Apr 2014
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Study involving medical students and physicians: showed x rays of the ankle and asked to make a diagnosis, one group was 4th year medical student, another group was board certified radiologist, medical students: not very good at making an appropriate diagnoses and took a while to decide, radiologists: always made accurate diagnoses and made them instantly. Janet starks study: asymmetries in the month of which someone is born and whether or not that month has any affect on their ability to attain expertise, took elite canadian hockey players and found the month they were born in and divided that into quartiles and studied the proportion that were playing in nhl all the way down to lesser leagues, ability of athletes in soccer study increased from the bottom to the top, athletes with highest expertise: 50% were born in 1st quartile while only.
