What Determines Who Succeeds in the NBA?
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Former Google data scientist and bestselling author of Everybody Lies Seth Stephens-Davidowitz turns his analytic skills to the NBA.
Shermer and Stephens-Davidowitz discuss: why some countries produce so many more NBA players than others \\u2022 the greatest NBA players adjusted for height \\u2022 why tall NBA players are worse athletes than short NBA players \\u2022 How much do NBA coaches matter and what do they do? \\u2022 In a population of 8 billion today compared to centuries past, where are all the Mozarts, Beethovens, Da Vincis, Newtons, Darwins, etc.?
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a contributing op-ed writer for the New York Times, a lecturer at The Wharton School, and a former Google data scientist. He received a BA from Stanford and a PhD from Harvard.\\xa0He is the author of Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are and Don\\u2019t Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life.
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