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If the key's not there, the light won't help

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1998

Robert J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8205 [email protected]
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Abstract

Howe and colleagues demonstrate that deliberate practice is necessary for proficient levels of competence, a fact that is uncontroversial. They fail, however, to demonstrate the role of biology in talent, because the studies they cite are almost all irrelevant to the issue.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , June 1998 , pp. 425 - 426
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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