# David Hambrick
Cognitive psychologist at Michigan State University. Known for meta-analytic work challenging the strong version of the deliberate practice hypothesis: practice accounts for far less of the variance in expert performance than Ericsson's framing implies, and the amount of practice needed varies enormously even among elite performers.
## Quotes
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- [[Some normally functioning people may never acquire expert performance in certain domains, regardless of the amount of deliberate practice]]
- [[There is an enormous amount of variability in deliberate practice, even in elite performers]]
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## Books
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