I just want to say thanks for writing this. The replacement-level player in particular made it immediately obvious once I examined my prejudice that the average drop in quality as you go down a tier in graduates of highly ranked graduate programmes will be very, very low, almost swamped by noise.
If something apart from the Cambridge Handbook of Expert Performance was particularly helpful for figuring out when people peaked or if peaking time was a function of invested time or of age I’d be very interested.
K. Anders Ericson is one of the editors of that Cambridge Handbook and he is also the author of that study linked above. I have not read the handbook yet, but as near as I can tell he is the world’s leading authority on this question and I found that linked paper easy to grok. The quickest way into the literature is probably to follow his citations.
I have not done this yet either. If you do it and find something useful I would like to know about it. I am going through a mid-life career transition and wary of biting off more than I can chew up and swallow.
I just want to say thanks for writing this. The replacement-level player in particular made it immediately obvious once I examined my prejudice that the average drop in quality as you go down a tier in graduates of highly ranked graduate programmes will be very, very low, almost swamped by noise.
If something apart from the Cambridge Handbook of Expert Performance was particularly helpful for figuring out when people peaked or if peaking time was a function of invested time or of age I’d be very interested.
K. Anders Ericson is one of the editors of that Cambridge Handbook and he is also the author of that study linked above. I have not read the handbook yet, but as near as I can tell he is the world’s leading authority on this question and I found that linked paper easy to grok. The quickest way into the literature is probably to follow his citations.
I have not done this yet either. If you do it and find something useful I would like to know about it. I am going through a mid-life career transition and wary of biting off more than I can chew up and swallow.