Ready for some football? Hockey? More on Gould’s declining SD conjecture

Well, with reluctance and trepidation, I’ve pretty much concluded that Stephen Jay Gould’s (r)evolutionary conjecture on the variability of sports performances is wrong. You might know (or if you have been following my own journey learned) that Gould famously conjectured that athletic performances can be expected to become less variable as a sport matures. This […]