Deliberate Practice and Performance in Music, Games, Sports, Education, and Professions: A Meta-Analysis
Across ages Expertise and practice
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Supports (1)
| Claim | Basis |
|---|---|
| C16 | Meta-analysis: practice explained 26% of performance variance in games, 21% music, 18% sports, 4% education, under 1% professions. |
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Source note
Syntes: Deliberate Practice and Performance in Music, Games, Sports, Education, and Professions: A Meta-Analysis (2014)
Källa: https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614535810 (Psychological Science 25(8))
Verified content
- Meta-analysis across domains in which deliberate practice has been studied (abstract).
- Deliberate practice explained 26% of the variance in performance for games, 21% for music, 18% for sports, 4% for education and less than 1% for professions.
- Conclusion: deliberate practice is important, but not as important as has been argued.
Limits
- Practice mostly measured retrospectively; correlational.
Added 2026-10-16 by the project (broadening, Jonatan approved 2026-10-16); content from the published abstract or well-documented summaries, not a full-text read unless stated.
Metadata as recorded
- ID
- EXP-001
- Tier
- meta
- Titel
- Deliberate Practice and Performance in Music, Games, Sports, Education, and Professions: A Meta-Analysis
- År
- 2014
- Källa/DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614535810
- Tidskrift
- Psychological Science 25(8)
- Typ
- peer-reviewed meta-analysis
- Åldersgrupp
- overgripande
- Teman
- expertis-och-ovning
- Hämtad
- 2026-10-16
- Verifierad
- Crossref metadata (title, authors, year, venue) checked 2026-10-16
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