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Outliers: The Story of Success
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Occasionally insightful, but Gladwell's science is pretty junky. His reasons for success change by the page. And he cherry-picks examples to exactly fit the scheme under consideration. Plus, he's obsessed with callbacks and summary statements that only showcase the faulty connections between ideas.
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Mar 23, 2014 07:36PM
Agreed. This hypothesis of book was completely unsubstantiated.
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is it worth the time investment or should I read something else?
Read it. You may have a different opinion.
Care to give any particulars regarding his junk science or varying criteria? Your points may have merit but your critique paints Gladwell's effort as lazy or unsubstantiated while being empty and vague itself.
Great review.You made my work easy.
This is what exactly I thought.
Extremely well said. I totally agree that his research and citations seem to be very shaky at times. His science is very questionable all throughout this work. Remember too that he tends to exclusively use evidence supporting his claims. Also I might add that his "10,000 rule" has been proven to be false more than once.
Exactly what I think of this book.
You all seem to be criticizing the work yet unable to proof with any reasonable sense or data to reinforce your criticism. I have read the book and tried the analysis on other areas and i can only saw he did a great job! may not be perfect of course.
Exactly this. Book has interesting results but these results do not provide enough basis for understanding the whole picture. Only one thing works for every outlier is, no one can become outlier with only his/her efforts. Other assumptions vary so much.
See you're right. But book is about Outliers. So certainly it's not the scheme of things for all... It's just trying to statistify (lol) the scenario and trying to make a sense out of it.This book has obviously put stress on Hockey players born far from January 😂
Exactly what I thought, way too much anecdotal evidence and super broad generalizations
