Comparison of Intelligence of High and Low Performing Basket Ball Players

The Correlation Between Intelligence and Performance in Basketball Players

Abstract

High performing Basket ballplayers have ahigher level of intelligence and it is significant at 0.01 level of confidence.We can conclude that intelligence is a correlate of high performance in thegame of Basket ball. Probably there is not much difference in performance, orthe data taken in this study are small and for a more reliable inference thestudy be repeated on a larger data. The study has its own limitations whichneed not be thrown out of consideration. the difference between theself-confidence of the high performing Basket ballplayers and low performingBasket ballplayers is not significant. So even in the game of kabaddi,self-confidence is no correlate of good performance. high performing Basketballplayers have a little higher self-confidence but since the t-ratio gives anon-significant value ,