David Weiss is an emeritus psychology professor specializing in judgment and decision making who has published two books and over 70 academic articles. His most recent research is about objectively assessing expertise when there is no scoreboard. David has written extensively about bridge, publishing two books and over 60 articles in The Bridge World.
Good professor that he is, David brought some slides with him, so I encourage you to watch this one rather than listen if you can. I’ve included the video here, or you can watch it on YouTube. You can also listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Some of the highlights:
Expertise requires two things: discrimination and consistency (3:30)
Evaluating expertise based on performance and the difficulty of evaluating bridge performance (6:15)
The process of skill acquisition (16:00)
The myth of the 10,000 hour rule (17:20)
David’s study of Free Throws (22:30)
Concentration and being a “pressure player” (29:00)
We all have a ceiling in terms of ability, but there is no ceiling on concentration (35:00)
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