A Critique of Gladwell on College Applications and Divergence Testing
Malcolm Gladwell begins Outliers with the story of Rosetta, Pennsylvania – a small town of Italian immigrants in which the average life expectancy far surpassed ordinary standards. A team...
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I completely agree with you here. Gladwell is trying to make the point: Knowledge of a boy's IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys." As Gladwell states, there seems to...
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In response to points both Eero and Stephen raise, I wonder whether Gladwell is 100% serious about his lottery "solution", or whether he is pointing to the reality that as it currently exists, the...
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