Advantages

Blog post 2: Synthesis

                If you have advantages over some things it can be an advantage and then it can also be disadvantage. Some people have a Hispanic inheritance and that some of them able to speak Spanish more fluently and know a little from their parents. Some people never spoken Spanish in their life so they struggle to do accents and that gives the Hispanic people more of an advantage over the others. If it is a competitive advantage such as being taller than others giving you a more of a speed advantage than the rest of the people. I do not agree with him because I think that age doesn’t matter to a certain point if you are 20 years old and you practice basketball your whole life and if you a 40 year old man and you practiced your whole life that would be an advantage but overall if you both practice the same but are different aged then age wouldn’t matter. The “Mathew effect” didn’t really make me rethink my opinion but it did give me some ideas on what advantages you would gain from being older. He makes an example of picking a 9 or 10 year old and when he picks them they practice twice as much, they play more games, and they get better teammates, making them a better player when they grow up.