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Nitiontoday at 4:30 AM0 repliesview on HN

You also need to know the percentage of children that become prodigies before you can calculate exactly how much more likely they are to become elite adults.

e.g. If 1% of children are prodigies, prodigies are around 10x as likely to become elite as non-prodigies.

If 0.1% of children are prodigies, prodigies are around 100x as likely to become elite as non-prodigies.

Or in the rather unlikely case that 10% of children are prodigies, non-prodigies become elite at exactly the same rate as prodigies - 10%.