Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance · chapter 7 · id grit-c7-02-spelling-bee-champions-who-sco

“Spelling bee champions who scored higher on grit practiced more hours of solitary deliberate practice, and this practice mediated the grit-performance relationship.”

needs contextconfidence: medium⚠ extracted by pipeline, re-audit pending

Receipts

Duckworth et al. (2011), Social Psychological and Personality Science 2(2), 174-181DOI registry: valid

Grittier spellers practiced more hours of deliberate practice (solitary study), which mediated the relationship between grit and spelling bee performance. N = 190 national spelling bee finalists.

Replication Index - Independent verificationsource alive

This claim is a stable, citable object. If you can falsify a verdict, tell us — corrections are loud here.