clivecrook.theatlantic.com - 12/17/2008
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I am steeling myself to approach "Outliers", Malcolm Gladwell's latest. I am not an admirer, but I can hardly complain about this further contribution to the culture--as I hope to in due course--without having read it. Since the first chapter of "Tipping Point" I have been enduring Gladwell out ...
newyorker.com - 12/13/2008
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On the day of the big football game
between the University of Missouri Tigers and the Cowboys
of Oklahoma State, a football scout named Dan Shonka sat in his hotel, in Columbia, Missouri, with a portable DVD player. Shonka has worked for three ...
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Malcolm Gladwell: How do we hire when we can't tell ...
theregister.co.uk - 12/17/2008
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theregister.co.uk —
Have you ever had the nagging sense that
there's something not quite right with the adulation that
follows Malcolm Gladwell - the author of Tipping Point ? But you couldn't quite put your finger on it? We're here to help, dear reader. Gladwell gave ...
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The dumb, dumb world of Malcolm Gladwell • The Register
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... just out continues that tradition. In an era when hardly a day goes by without new evidence of some genetic influence on people being recorded in the academic journals of medical genetics and behaviour genetics, Sadwell has to be fast and loose to maintain his position. And fast and loose he is. I have pointed out the many holes in one of his effusions here. David Brooks has a useful review of his latest book here and there are a few scathing comments on it here. Gladwell's basic point in his new book appears to be that you need a ...
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... just out continues that tradition. In an era when hardly a day goes by without new evidence of some genetic influence on people being recorded in the academic journals of medical genetics and behaviour genetics, Sadwell has to be fast and loose to maintain his position. And fast and loose he is. I have pointed out the many holes in one of his effusions here. David Brooks has a useful review of his latest book here and there are a few scathing comments on it here. Gladwell's basic point in his new book appears to be that you need a ...
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