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Will you become an All-Star Athlete? The answer may depend on when you were born.
Will you become an All-Star Athlete? The answer may depend on when you were born.
The idea that the size of your birth group affects your chances of success in life is not a new one. In new research, Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez, and Tingting Zhang find that this effect also influences the chances of someone becoming an All-Star Athlete. Analysing the National Hockey League (NHL), they find that players born in times of […]