Event Title
Helping talent scouts to overcome the RAE
Location
Room 320, Norman Bethune College, York University (Toronto, ON)
Start Date
17-10-2018 3:15 PM
End Date
17-10-2018 3:45 PM
Description
In this talk, David Mann will discuss recent studies that examine how talent scouts make selections in sport, and potential solutions to help scouts to account for the RAE. David will first present recent work which shows the degree to which relative age and maturation influence the selections of scouts when making judgements of talent. He will then discuss recent studies which have looked to alter the judgements made by talent scouts by presenting information about the relative age and maturation of young athletes. The results show that it is not enough for scouts to simply be aware of the RAE and have access to the relative age or maturation of young athletes, but rather that more pervasive interventions such as age-ordered shirt numbering are required to alter the selections of scouts.
Helping talent scouts to overcome the RAE
Room 320, Norman Bethune College, York University (Toronto, ON)
In this talk, David Mann will discuss recent studies that examine how talent scouts make selections in sport, and potential solutions to help scouts to account for the RAE. David will first present recent work which shows the degree to which relative age and maturation influence the selections of scouts when making judgements of talent. He will then discuss recent studies which have looked to alter the judgements made by talent scouts by presenting information about the relative age and maturation of young athletes. The results show that it is not enough for scouts to simply be aware of the RAE and have access to the relative age or maturation of young athletes, but rather that more pervasive interventions such as age-ordered shirt numbering are required to alter the selections of scouts.
Comments
David Mann is an Assistant Professor in Human Movement Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has undergraduate degrees in Optometry, and Human Movement Sciences, and completed his PhD while working in Skill Acquisition at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, Australia. David teaches in Talent Identification and Development, and works in this area with industry partners including the International Paralympic Committee, Netherlands Olympic Committee, Netherlands Police, and Ajax plus Feyenoord Football Clubs. His recent work has examined the information used by talent scouts when making judgements of talent, and seeks to help scouts to overcome biases such as the RAE.