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VIDEO Capitalizing on Human Potential. Outliers: A Myth? Malcolm Gladwell, you got some ‘splainin to do.

Outliers: A Myth?

In Gladwell’s best seller ‘Outliers’ he laid out the leg-up that athletes born earlier in the year had over those who had birthdates from July on. Here’s an excerpt from an ESPN Q&A with the author: The first chapter in "Outliers" is about how some Canadian hockey players born in the first months of the year enjoy advantages that those born later in the year don't have. You also write that birth month correlates closely with success in other sports. Convert 10000 Hours to Days. Am I Missing Something or Is Malcolm Gladwell a Fraud? Another Jonah Lehrer?

Am I Missing Something or Is Malcolm Gladwell a Fraud?

In an interview at Tuesday, writer Malcolm Gladwell is on The Daily Show plugging his new book David and Goliath. It deals with the notion of “desirable difficulties”, how you can overcome seemingly debilitating conditions and turn them into assets. One such condition, supposedly, is dyslexia, a disorder characterized by difficulties in basic language skills, like reading and writing. So how is that desirable? Gladwell mentions the phenomenon of successful and dyslectic entrepreneurs saying, “they didn’t succeed despite of their dyslexia, but because of it” and that their childhood problems with this condition “forced them to learn all kinds of strategies that ended up being more important.”

Or maybe Gladwell is well aware that this type of success stories sell, especially if they’re made to look as if they also tell the reader something new and interesting about human nature. I guess I’ll have to read the book to be sure, but this looks very suspicious. Malcolm Gladwell critique: David and Goliath misrepresents the science. Photo illustration by Slate, photo by Zereshk via Wikimedia Commons, painting by Claude Vignon Malcolm Gladwell, the New Yorker writer and perennial best-selling author, has a new book out.

Malcolm Gladwell critique: David and Goliath misrepresents the science.

It's called David and Goliath: Misfits, Underdogs, and the Art of Battling Giants. I reviewed it on Sept. 28 in The Wall Street Journal. (Other reviews have appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Millions, and Slate, to name a few; the Guardian has even “digested” the book into a 600-word satire.) Gladwell for Dummies. That success is in the eye of the unsuccessful would seem to be the great unspoken dilemma dogging critics asked to consider the work of the rich and famous author and inspirational speaker Malcolm Gladwell.

Gladwell for Dummies

No matter how well intentioned or intellectually honest their attempts to assess his ideas, the subtext of Gladwell’s perceived success, and its implications for their own aspirations in the competitive thought-generation business, obscures their judgment and sinks their morale. Businessinsider. The next time you're about to pay Malcolm Gladwell $80k to speak at your company, read this first, and then decide.

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In a manner that's vicious (and yet somehow restrained), Harvard professor Stephen Pinker goes after Gladwell, after reading through several of his essays: The common thread in Gladwell’s writing is a kind of populism, which seeks to undermine the ideals of talent, intelligence and analytical prowess in favor of luck, opportunity, experience and intuition. For an apolitical writer like Gladwell, this has the advantage of appealing both to the Horatio Alger right and to the egalitarian left. David Brooks and Malcolm Gladwell wrong about I.Q, Income and Wealth. In his book "The Social Animal", reviewed here, David brooks writes: "Once you get past some pretty obvious correlations (smart people make better mathematicians), there is a very loose relationship between IQ and life outcomes.

David Brooks and Malcolm Gladwell wrong about I.Q, Income and Wealth

" Brooks further cites a study claiming that there is "no correlation between accumulating large wealth and high IQ. " Both claims are wrong. The result Brooks cites is after "controlling" for education and income. But education and income are themselves functions of I.Q, so you shouldn't control for them if the question you want to answer is how I.Q effects life outcomes. I have not seen this graphed online, so let's visualize the relationship between an estimate of I.Q and income and wealth so you can see for yourself.

For this group the lowest decile is people with I.Q below 84, and the highest decile above 116, which is not a very high cutoff. There are some policy implications from this realization. Science & Environment - Why Gladwell’s 10,000-hour rule is wrong. There’s no magic number for becoming a world-beater, says science writer David Bradley, just ask the psychologist whose research formed the basis of the popular idea.

Science & Environment - Why Gladwell’s 10,000-hour rule is wrong

Being exceptional at something is often attributed to one’s genes. Talent is passed down from parents or grandparents it seems, whether it is musical or artistic skill, ability with numbers or being great at juggling. No doubt there are significant genetic factors involved, but there are almost certainly environmental factors in the mix too. Teen Book Review of instructional, nonfiction, non book and success. In the book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell challenges the notion of how success is achieved.

Teen Book Review of instructional, nonfiction, non book and success

Gladwell’s thesis states that there is logic behind why certain people are more successful than others, and this logic has more to do with opportunity and legacy than a person’s measured IQ. Success, Gladwell argues, is a result of multiple factors, including the time and place of a child’s birth and the income level of a child’s parents. Additionally, according to Gladwell, luck and opportunity play crucial roles in determining success. Through numerous anecdotes, Gladwell illustrates examples of “outliers”, or people whose achievements are different from those of the norm. Search. Malcolm Gladwell is an Untalented Hack. In case you aren’t current on pseudo-scientific clap-trap, Malcolm Gladwell has written a series of books that start with very simple and intuitive assumptions, and then build sweeping and generally unsupported conclusions.

Malcolm Gladwell is an Untalented Hack

His latest book is “Outliers”, where he investigates very unusual (generally highly skilled or accomplished) people, and tries to figure out how they came to be so. This is a very worthy topic, but in his analysis I think he has done more harm than good. My latest run-in with Gladwell, and the inspiration for this post, was on TV the other night. He was being interviewed about his book, and specifically brought up his example of how The Beatles became famous. The Tipping Point, Outliers, Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. What Malcolm Gladwell Saw. Out-Liar: What Malcolm Gladwell Gets Wrong About the Relative Age Effect in Pro Hockey.

In trying to bring more coverage to Bloody Elbow regarding sports and science, I thought it would be fitting to get interesting contributors to explore the relationship between the two. And I can think of none more interesting than Jon Levey who was kind enough to allow me to post his article addressing the relative age effect. A brief paragraph from the original piece was published in Sports Illustrated in its August issue as part of a small 'Mythbusters' series. Below is the article in its entirety. Jon Levey can be found on twitter @72unforced. You can find more of his work here at his website. After lording over some of the most heralded teams in college basketball history, the great John Wooden concluded: "I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent. " In Canada the eligibility cutoff for age-class hockey is January 1. One of the first to research relative age in Canadian hockey players was Dr.

Jan-Mar: 25.7% 34.2% Video: Malcolm Gladwell: 'Speaking is not an act of extroversion' Twitter and Facebook cannot change the real world, says Malcolm Gladwell. Social networks, those loose, busy and self-absorbing communities of Facebookers and Twitterers, have always invited analogies from the insect world. If we are to accept the most common of them, then in the past week, Malcolm Gladwell, provocateur-in-chief at the New Yorker magazine, has poked a sharp stick into the online ants' nest. The twitterers have responded to his provocation by swarming on to blogs and websites to protect their uniting belief: that the future belongs to them. Malcolm Gladwell Part 1 - November 28, 2011 - Bon Mot Book Club - Vancouver. Twitter: Gladwell's social media argument 'laughable' Twitter founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone have derided Malcolm Gladwell's contention that the effect of online networks on social change is greatly exaggerated, saying his argument is "laughable".

Williams, who stepped down as chief executive of the social networking site last week, said Gladwell's New Yorker article was "entertaining but kind of pointless", while Stone said it was "absurd" to think that social networks were not "complementary to activism". The pair are the latest to launch a riposte to Gladwell's dismissal of social networks, after the article – subheaded "Why the revolution will not be tweeted" – began to make waves on Monday 4 October.

Williams said: "It was a very well-constructed argument but it was kind of laughable. "Anyone who's claiming that sending a tweet by itself is activism, that's ludicrous — but no one's claiming that, at least no one that's credible. If you can't organise you can't activate. Video: Malcolm Gladwell Challenges Accuracy of US News College Ranking System. Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers: The Story of Success) caused quite a stir with his New Yorker piece challenging the veracity of college ranking systems such as the U.S.

News and World Report franchise: The Order of Things: What the College Rankings Really Tell Us. In this follow up interview, Malcolm elaborates on why such ranking systems are inherently flawed. Is Malcolm Gladwell America's Most Successful Propagandist and Corporate Shill? June 6, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. ESPN.com: Page 2 : Interview: Malcolm Gladwell. By Jeff MerronPage 2. Reinventing Invention. Why Malcolm Gladwell Is Wrong About Steve Jobs, In Three Words. Malcolm Gladwell Is #Wrong. Essay. A Tipping Point for Gladwell Haters? Malcolm Gladwell Unmasked: A Look Into the Life & Work of America’s Most Successful Propagandist.

Yves here. Malcolm Gladwell Searches Twitter for '60s Activism. Slactivism gets the Malcolm Gladwell treatment in his new New Yorker piece out today. The History of Social Media. Long before it became the commercialized mass information and entertainment juggernaut it is today, long before it was accessible to the general public, and certainly many years before Al Gore claimed he “took the initiative in creating” it, the Internet – and its predecessors – were a focal point for social interactivity. Granted, computer networking was initially envisioned in the heyday of The Beatles as a military-centric command and control scheme. But as it expanded beyond just a privileged few hubs and nodes, so too did the idea that connected computers might also make a great forum for discussing mutual topics of interest, and perhaps even meeting or renewing acquaintances with other humans.