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...Florida State simulations show, experience doesn't always help. In fact, three decades of research into expert performance has shown that experience itself - the raw amount of time you spend pursuing any particular activity, from brain surgery to skiing - can actually hinder your ability to deliver reproducibly superior performance...
...Ericsson, a large, gentle man with unkempt salt-and-pepper hair and a button on his jacket missing, has become the world's leading expert on experts, a term he distinguishes from "expert performers" - those individuals, possessing both experience and superior skill, who tend to win Nobel Prizes or international chess competitions or Olympic medals. Ericsson notes that some entire classes of experts - for instance, those who pick stocks for a living - are barely better than novices. (Experienced investors do perform a little ahead of chance, his studies show, but not enough to outweigh transaction costs...
...before Cornell cut the lead in half in the third.“They came out strong in the third period when we last played them,” Kessler said. They’re definitely going to bring that momentum this weekend. Obviously were going in being the superior team, supposedly, so as underdogs they’ve got nothing to lose.”One of the Big Red’s goals in that third period came from freshman forward Rebecca Johnston, Cornell’s leading scorer. Johnston has racked up 16 goals and 15 assists...
...published in the July 2007 issue of the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA). In the study, Kiel, a gerontologist, said that hip protectors are not effective in preventing injuries among elderly patients, a claim challenged by HipSaver, a popular hip protector manufacturer, in a suit filed in Norfolk Superior Court on Feb. 15. Representatives for HipSaver accuse Kiel of deliberately using one particular type of hip protector that is inferior to many of the protectors on the market and concluding that all hip protectors were not effective. HipSaver’s president, Edward L. Goodwin, said in an interview that...
...calling themselves a “people’s court,” who threaten to castrate him if he ever touches his wife again. Thus, Thiong’o’s plot ridicules the men who dare to believe that, due to specious tradition, they are superior to the other sex. In the third couple of the story, Mariko and Maritha, Thiong’o examines the ways in which Christianity impacts Africa. Mariko and Maritha are devout Christians whose problem is not one of violence. In fact, they have been happy partners for so many years...