So yes, of course you'd observe or otherwise measure the subject somehow. Why do you find it easy to believe in genetic advantages for basketball, but not other activities? It would be strange if other talent did NOT have a genetic (and maybe hormonal, etc.) component, wouldn't it, when most everything from intelligence to obesity can be inherited?Įxceptional aptitude only makes sense measured against the median performance. There's no need to take an extreme view where "talent" (meaning something like potential at birth) must be 0% or 100% of achievement, or to tell that to people, because from what we know it's somewhere in the middle. His daughter can do better if she's lucky and works hard. Our chicken processor probably tried his hardest and can feel good. Further complicating the matter, ability at birth can be broken down into heritability and environmental factors before birth. I think it's better to tell people the truth: achievement is a murky blend of nature and nurture interacting together, the factors seem to be important in different proportions for different people, and we only understand it imprecisely and at a population level. We've identified SNPs that correlate with IQ and education attainment, too, so there's an obvious mechanism. These are all valid criticisms in that they affect the precision of the measurement, but they're not enough to fully write off heritability as a whole. Yes, in utero conditions falsely appear as heritability in twin studies. Yes, adoption studies are biased by who agrees to sign up. Yes, the specific number they put on heritability might be biased by a few factors. Yes, some older studies used odd statistical modelling. I agree with the criticisms but don't agree that they invalidate twin studies to the extent that it's reasonable to believe cognitive traits are 100% nurture. The discussion about talent gets in the way of helping people to develop.ītw: i am skeptical about twin studies being enough to give us the answer: but we decide that these kid have talent and that other kids don't, when it's possible that others could create a similar work if they just had been given the opportunity. we simply have no idea whether the work in this competition is the result of talent or other factors. The problem is that people look for evidence of talent when we still don't know how to measure it. What's cruel is that we tell them that they have no hope because their circumstances are beyond their control instead of supporting them with the resources they would need to develop the potential that they do have.Īll that statement is doing is looking down on them, quite regardless of what factors determine their potential. How would telling them that the reason they are not a harvard professor is because they don't have the talent for it be any better? i already mentioned that but you are drawing the wrong conclusion. Some sound effects were from purchased sound libraries or found online copyright free. Most textures are photos sourced from or taken by me in real life, but have been modified by me to include procedural grime and dirt buildup in crevasses. I used Quixel megascans for some of the rubbish seen at the bottom of the second shot. The humans in the first and second shots are free photoscans I downloaded online and then rigged, there are a few small mechanical parts that were included in a library that I used, but the majority of them are mine. The TV and advertisment footage were from previous projects. "I used Blender for the animation and Davinci Resolve for the colour grading (I also used the Film Convert plugin), all animations were rigged and keyframed by me with exception of the people walking in the first shot (those were from mixamo). I thought people would like to hear Euan's description he entered as part of the competition submission: The completion is judged by professionals from UK Animation & VFX Studios (including ILM) and we were all blown away by the quality of the entrants - Blender and Ian Hubert are doing amazing things for the next generation of talent! I'm the organizer of the YAY UK competition, and so glad Euan's work has got such wide recognition!
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