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There are roughly 2.4 million men in the United States 6 foot 4 or taller. 
There are roughly 500 professional basketball players in the NBA

Using height as shorthand for ability to perform at the elite level would be foolishness... as would using a CoGAT score as shorthand for who would be best suited for a magnet program.

There is a LOT more to recruiting than just one or two descriptive statistics

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Yes... but the player who is 5 foot 1 inch is not NBA material.   Just as the 85% kid is NOT AS GOOD as the 99% kid.  And this is not using just COGAT.  Use a composite score.  That's fine...MAP + COGAT + School grades.  Anything but a lottery.  And yes, my kid is in a magnet and had 99% scores in MAP and COGAT and straight A's and did not go to Dr Li.... and is thriving in their magnet  [/quote]
Muggsy Boges was 5'3" and played over 10 years in the NBA. Spud Webb was 5'7" and won the NBA dunk contest. [/quote]

Naming even 20 notable short players among thousands of NBA players doesn't make your case. Math is not your strong suit for sure. [/quote]

Bayes Theoram... the math works until you come across someone that refuses to even consider new information.

That someone, this evening, is you.

FACT: Being in the 99th percentile of height does not make you an ELITE basketball player.

FACT: Scoring in the 99th percentile of the CoGAT does not make you an ELITE student.

There are a LOT of tall people that can't perform at that level. And there are a LOT of 99th percentile students that can't perform in a magnet.

And there are a LOT of people "short" on those measures that can perform. 
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Some people are just so invested in the superiority of a test.

And yet they keep telling us not to teach to the test. [/quote]

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