Blog Post 2: Synthesis

Blog Post on Synthesis

“The Matthew Effect”

Olivia Gaetos

I do participate in something competitive, I play CT girls basketball.  I do believe that people have certain advantages in this sport.  The players that are considered to have the advantages in my opinion are the players that are, bigger or taller, faster, stronger, that have a good memory, and how much practice or skill they have.  These advantages can either help you while you play or practice, and they can help you reach the WNBA or the NBA if you are that good at it and if you have these advantages in the game.  Gladwell’s opinion on this would be similar because he does think that certain people have an advantage in certain things.  He believes that in hockey, the player born in January will be able to be coached better, and will be able to reach the top because they will be the more advanced players of their league causing them to reach the big leagues of hockey.  It is the same with baseball.  All the players born in the month of September rather than any other month will be better at baseball because they will be more mature and trained in the sport.   I do believe that these sources are convincing because Gladwell is right because the player of child born in the month of the cutoff date of an academic or sport, the child will most likely do better than a player or child born in a month later than a cutoff date of an academic or sport.