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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 robert.sternberg@yale.edu
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Abstract

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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.

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