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[quote=Anonymous]re Canada pushing kids ahead, there's a great section in Malcolm Gladwell's book "Outliers", where he discusses the birth months of the top players in the Canadian Hockey League. The age cut off for youth hockey teams is January 1. There are an incredible number of elite  players born in Jan/Feb/March (40%) and around 10% were born between Oct and December. Because those who are older at the start of the year tend to be bigger as youngsters, they are more likely to get picked for travel teams and special training early on and hence to make it to the big leagues as adults.

He then goes onto to discuss the same phenomenon in education, citing a study by Bedard and Dhuey that concludes "at four-year colleges in the United States - the highest stream of post secondary education - students belonging to the relatively youngest group in their class are under-represented by about 11.6 percent." p 29

I thought it was a very interesting discussion of the lottery that birth dates represent. [/quote]

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