Mädchen, die nach dem Schulsport in Großbritannien spielen 50% höhere Wahrscheinlichkeit, später Top-Jobs zu bekommen, findet Studienfunde

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

State of the comments here, reddit really hates sports and PE at school

I wish it was standard practice to properly cite and link to the original work.

Playing sports and getting to the top level jobs are both going to benefit from a fair bit of competitiveness, something in my experience lots of women don’t have.

No surprise to me there’s a link.

Girls whose parents have time & income to support playing sports do better in life. Hard hitting journalism here.

Never attribute to talent what you can attribute what you can attribute to social class.

If your parents can afford to keep you in afterschool sports long term, pay for you to go to competitions and camps etc, they’re better off than most. You may even have gone to a fee-paying school.

So it’s unlikely that it’s the sport which is *actually* making the difference. It’s the class networks and the social network. You would likely get the same result in a study of young women who were in a youth orchestra or other after school activity.

Breaking news: people with get-up-and-go… get-up-and-go.

And here’s Steven with the weather.

So schools with the money to provide after school sports, have better results than schools without the money.

Children with competive drive that find sports rewarding, do well in careers competing for top jobs.

Parents who have the time, resources and involvement to assist kids with after school activities, raise kids that have better results.

Children with access to good nutrition, who have good physical bodies, have better results in later life.

Absolutely groundbreaking news this.