Podcast
Modern Wisdom
It was discussed how tall people have a massive advantage in basketball. This is due to genetics, and the book explores the different aspects of this topic, such as the advantage of having tall parents and the importance of hand size. It was also mentioned that certain players, despite not having a privileged upbringing, made it to the top, while others from similar backgrounds failed to achieve similar success. It was speculated that these players might have had unique talents or motivations that were not fully appreciated by the world at the time. It was also said that the book explores the socioeconomic background of NBA players, revealing that they are less likely to have unique names, and that black NBA players are more likely to have names like Chris, Michael, or Marcus.
And I've ranked every player, you know, the, the math is in an appendix for those who are really curious, uh, how good they would be if they were at the same height, how many muggsies they'd have. And...
— Episode: #749 - Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - The Hi...
Episode: #749 - Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - The Hidden Stati...
It was discussed how tall people have a massive advantage in basketball. This is due to genetics, and the book explores the different aspects of this topic, such as the advantage of having tall parents and the importance of hand size. It was also mentioned that certain players, despite not having a privileged upbringing, made it to the top, while others from similar backgrounds failed to achieve similar success. It was speculated that these players might have had unique talents or motivations that were not fully appreciated by the world at the time. It was also said that the book explores the socioeconomic background of NBA players, revealing that they are less likely to have unique names, and that black NBA players are more likely to have names like Chris, Michael, or Marcus.
And I've ranked every player, you know, the, the math is in an appendix for those who are really curious, uh, how good they would be if they were at the same height, how many muggsies they'd have. And number one is muggsy Bogues who's just achievement is so ridiculously insane to be an NBA player for 14 seasons.
And if you look at NBA players, they're half as likely, black NBA players are half as likely as the black population writ large to have unique names.
They're much more likely to have names, Chris, Michael, Marcus.
You know my numbing a lot of it and in this project that was all gone like all i did was come up with ideas i'm just like here data analyst do it for me and it was just awesome it was so fine so it's just like.