They'll always be able to point to exceptions - someone who had ridiculously high physical coordination or work ethic, but those traits are often more obvious than physical traits.
Yes, and my sort of utilitarian calculation is that you'll do more good in the world by discouraging a few would-be exceptions while not misleading a billion kids who obviously aren't going to be a professional athlete (or an extreme autodidact, or a Supreme Court Justice, or anything else like a handful of humans can do that the rest of us can't).
The truly odd thing about a forum like this one is that some of the people here actually are truly exceptional, one-in-a-million talents. I'm not talking to you :)
Anyway, my hypothesis (similar to yours, I think) is that those one-in-a-million talents receive a lot of reinforcement that they're one-in-a-million talents, already. They don't need it from me.
Yes, and my sort of utilitarian calculation is that you'll do more good in the world by discouraging a few would-be exceptions while not misleading a billion kids who obviously aren't going to be a professional athlete (or an extreme autodidact, or a Supreme Court Justice, or anything else like a handful of humans can do that the rest of us can't).
The truly odd thing about a forum like this one is that some of the people here actually are truly exceptional, one-in-a-million talents. I'm not talking to you :)
Anyway, my hypothesis (similar to yours, I think) is that those one-in-a-million talents receive a lot of reinforcement that they're one-in-a-million talents, already. They don't need it from me.