Grit No so Great

At this link roundup (which has nothing to do with baseball), I found this on grit research (third item from the bottom):

Educational psychology’s omnipresent superstar theory of “grit” claims that success depends not on any innate ability but on a (teachable) passion for sticking to hard work in the face of difficulties. Now it’s been tested (abstract, news article), and…”grit” accounts for 0.5% of variation in academic achievement (compared to 40% for intelligence). To add insult to injury, “grit” turns out to be pretty much identical to plain old Conscientiousness, which like everything else is about half heritable and half non-shared environment. I assume the grit research community has sworn to diligently keep pushing on in the face of this hardship. Also, would somebody please use this methodology for growth mindset?

So “grit” is short for, “Not a great talent, but plays hard.” Compare Derek Jeter and David Eckstein. If you search for “allintext: Derek Jeter“, you find 7.64 million articles on Google. If you search for “allintext: Derek Jeter grit” you find 178,000, so Jeter is associated with grit about 2% of the time. For David Eckstein the numbers are 555,000 total articles, 22,300 with grit, or 4%. Jeter was a gritty player, but it was secondary to his talent.

from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/1SzDQlq