Outliers

Outliers

What similar patterns emerged in the groups of musicians—both violinists and pianists—that psychologist K. Anders Ericsson and his colleagues studied? Support your answer with evidence from the text.

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“The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expertin anything,” writes the neurologist Daniel Levitin. “In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again."

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