People who love running have a slight advantage in baseball. They enjoy running so they do more of it so they are better at it. People who love running are slightly over-represented in prominent baseball positions. For similar reasons, people who love playing baseball have an advantage in baseball and are over-represented in prominent baseball positions.
time is finite, and time spent practicing running trades off against more core competencies such as hitting, fielding, pitching, ….
someone who looks to baseball as an outlet for their running hobby will be very disappointed. people who like running will instead play soccer, track & field, basketball. for this reason, i actually expect enjoying running to be anti-correlated with attained success at baseball[1].
looking at the matter at hand, it just obviously proves too much!
in order to compete in the mlb, one must succeed where others fail.
sadistic powerseekers like to watch others fail, so they have an advantage here.
therefore, sadistic powerseekers should be overrepresented in the mlb.
to be clear, if the argument is instead of the form “sadistic powerseekers find an outlet in positions of power, so seek them out. thus we would expect them to be overrepresented there” then i completely agree: makes sense, seems born out by evidence, no notes.
People who love running have a slight advantage in baseball. They enjoy running so they do more of it so they are better at it. People who love running are slightly over-represented in prominent baseball positions. For similar reasons, people who love playing baseball have an advantage in baseball and are over-represented in prominent baseball positions.
time is finite, and time spent practicing running trades off against more core competencies such as hitting, fielding, pitching, ….
someone who looks to baseball as an outlet for their running hobby will be very disappointed. people who like running will instead play soccer, track & field, basketball. for this reason, i actually expect enjoying running to be anti-correlated with attained success at baseball[1].
looking at the matter at hand, it just obviously proves too much!
in order to compete in the mlb, one must succeed where others fail.
sadistic powerseekers like to watch others fail, so they have an advantage here.
therefore, sadistic powerseekers should be overrepresented in the mlb.
to be clear, if the argument is instead of the form “sadistic powerseekers find an outlet in positions of power, so seek them out. thus we would expect them to be overrepresented there” then i completely agree: makes sense, seems born out by evidence, no notes.
in particular, at the highest levels of the sport.