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Steve Bonine · July 17th 08, 03:24 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.moderated

wrote:

My high school was involved in a competition known then as
"Mathletes", where we'd compete against teams from other schools in
solving math problems.

IMHO there was never a more level playing field, because all
competitors got the same problems, the same amount of time and had the
same resources.
.....
But at the end of the last meet, our A team had the highest season
points score, and the B team had the second highest.

I suspect that this is actually an illustration that all the competitors
did not really have the same resources. How much influence did your
coach have in how well the team did? Some of the teams were probably
coached by a teacher who was pressed into the position and had neither
the ability nor motivation to push the team to be competitive, while I
bet your coach was excellent.

Native ability is just part of the puzzle. Unless the opportunity and
motivation is there to develop the skill, nothing will ever come of it.

73, Steve KB9X