Outliers Review Questions for Chapter 1. The Matthew Effect 1. The explanation of who gets to the top of the hockey world is complicated. Is Canadian hockey a meritocracy or isn't it?? How do we define meritocracy? Provide your rationale. 2. How do you think about success? Do you associate it with individual effort, as the author believes is so common? What roles do parentage and patronage play-any at all. Please discuss. 3. Jeb Bush, a one-time governor of Florida and a presidential candidate, can be described as a self-made man. True or False-provide evidence to support your position. 4. Your birthday is December 21. What are your chances of being selected for the Medicine Hat Tigers Hockey Team? Explain, please. 5. Looking at the player roster on p. 20, which player has an almost perfect birthday for an elite soccer player. 6. Is there a correlation between hockey and education with regard to age? Do you think that it is appropriate to use ability group in early childhood education? 7. We often ask what successful people are like. We read biographies, memoirs and articles to help us understand factors in success of individuals. What might be a more definitive question to ask successful people-not what are you like, but --fill in the blank, please. 8. How is "relative age" related to the experience of college students? 9. Arbitrary choice of "cutoff dates" is causing long-lasting disadvantages that persist over time. "It could even mean the difference between going to college-and having a real shot at the middle class and not." T or F 10. Relate the "self-fulfilling prophecy" to Canadian hockey. 11. What are the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success