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[quote=Anonymous]To the PP who mentioned Malcolm Gladwell: I'm sorry, but Gladwell's logic is extremely flawed. He says that most professional hockey players have birthdays earlier in the year because they're older, except they're not. In grade school, his argument makes more sense, because all the kids on a given hockey were born in the same year, so the kids were birthdays earlier in the year are going to be older default. However, when you get into the adult, you're no longer just competing against people born in the same year as you. I can't find the study, but while most of the ice hockey players mentioned have early birthdays, they're all born in different years, which tells me that it's really just a coincidence. Let's say that the age span of adults trying out for a professional ice hockey team are those born between 1990 and 1996. By Gladwell's argument that age is an advantage, the players born in 1990, 1991, and 1992, would mainly be the ones to make the team, regardless of what month they were born. However, by Gladwell's logic, a player born in January of 1996 has an unfair advantage over a player born in December of 1990, which makes no sense, as the December-born players is over 5 years older than the January-born player[/quote]

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