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Practice makes perfect? Not so much, new research finds

May 20, 2013 by

Turns out, that old "practice makes perfect" adage may be overblown. New research finds that a copious amount of practice is not enough to explain why people differ in level of skill in two widely studied activities, chess and music.

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