>>13374236It's not even about experiments, in math, music and chess having genetic/natural predisposition makes you much better than average, also these domains are relatively cheap to get into, you can tell whether a child is good at math by giving him a textbook, try doing this with biology or history, how would you even decide whether someone is gifted at history besides "having good memory for dates"?
>>13374227Yeah, I used to love chemistry but high school curriculum makes it into a retarder version of physics. I could see chemistry prodigies existing but then it would be more like thermodynamics rather than chemistry