Are You a Non-Responder? Probably Not: Most Individual Variation in Training Response Is Measurement Noise, and Everyone Responded to Something

The idea that some people simply do not respond to training has enormous appeal. It explains a disappointing block, excuses a plateau, and gives a genetic-sounding reason for outcomes that might otherwise implicate the programme or the effort. It has also been the subject of a decade of increasingly careful research, and the careful research has been unkind to it. The variation between people that looked like a fixed trait turns out to be mostly noise, and the people who did not respond to one stimulus tended to respond to another.

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