Ragazze che giocano a sport post-scolastica nel Regno Unito il 50% in più di probabilità di ottenere in seguito i migliori lavori, lo studio scopre

This stinks of confounding variables. I imagine it’s much easier for wealthier parents or girls at private schools to do after school sport.

I doubt there’s something innate to after school sport that is making them so much more likely to get top jobs.

>The research found that women who played extracurricular sport as children were much more likely to reach senior professional roles. It attributes this benefit to the resilience, confidence and adaptability that sport builds, with women who play sport almost a third more likely to handle pressure well and bounce back after hard times, and a fifth more likely to enjoy trying new things.

I’m sure there’s an element of that.

But it may also be correlation rather than causation, as the above paragraph suggests; it may well be that the people who tend to go for top jobs have specific attributes (being a driven and competitive person, for example), and having those attributes *also* make it more likely that someone would be into sports.

Not that it really matters; getting kids into sport is a good thing, whether it helps them get into top jobs or not. If only from a health & fitness perspective.

This is one of those articles where you have to ask whether the journalist spent any time learning about statistics.

It’s written in that plausibly deniable way. It doesn’t say “if you send your kid to sports, they are 50% more likely to get a top job”. But it sure as hell does suggest it.

You should ask yourself whether the causation is

sport -> better job

or

privileged kid -> better job, sport

or something entirely different

Now I’m not going to say I know the answer, because maybe they actually did look at this in the study, but I don’t see it being addressed in the article.

The sports in question is probably Horse riding, fencing sailing archery ect ect