Writer Malcolm Gladwell recently published a collection of his essays in his new book What the Dog Saw. It was recently reviewed in The New York Times by cognitive scientist Stephen Pinker who complements Gladwell as "a writer of many gifts" but notes that "he is apt to offer generalizations that are banal, obtuse or flat wrong".Pinker cites several errors (including describing eigenvalues as 'Ig
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November 17, 2009
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October 27, 2009
Pushing Competition and Damaging Health: Making Play Offensive
If American football were a food additive or a drug, it would be banned by the FDA. Or, if financial interests prevented its banning, its package would at least carry a surgeon general's warning: Football causes brain damage. For a layman's summary of the evidence, take a look at Malcolm Gladwell's article, Offensive Play, which appeared in last week's New Yorker (Oct. 19 issue).Gladwell's articl
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June 15, 2009
Can the Unconscious Outperform the Conscious Mind?
ยท Think or blink? The powerful claims for unconscious thought in complex decision-making are overblown.In 2005 Malcolm Gladwell published a book called Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. It had an extremely seductive message: that complex decisions are often more accurate when made quickly, unconsciously, in the blink of an eye.Gladwell described a man [...]» Visit happier.com f
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