height and hair color also have the virtues of being easy to measure and unambiguously defined whereas "intelligence" is the opposite
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oh sure there are correlations but positing a single underlying factor isn't useful the system (batter vs pitcher) is too complex
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I'm not sure that's true. Wouldn't I (not athletically skilled) do worse than Babe Ruth at pretty much everything?
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And if we invented some completely new baseball statistic, wouldn't we have high probability Ruth would beat me in it?
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If this is true, lack of correlation between all measures of good hitting in preselected players might be example of tails coming apart.
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year to year correlations in the majors are pretty strong, but minor league batting average tells you almost nothing about ability to hit
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much less a factor responsible for 50% of outcomes as some claim for g
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