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Ya know, I think Malcolm Gladwell gets a lot of criticism for his "pop" social science research. And sometimes it's well deserved. I think this book is a good mix of interesting social science conclusions and "well, Malcolm, it's nice you have a study on this, but I could've told you all of this just being a person living in this world." For example, his ideas on coupling events and activities are very interesting. What was less interesting is that we have a hard time telling that someone is lyi
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This book was.....not AT ALL about what I expected it to be about, but being a Malcolm Gladwell joint it was still quite fascinating.
Somewhat horrifying into about how inept the CIA is here in the US...along with some interesting analysis about some of the major headline grabbing assault cases of the past decade.
If you like Gladwell, you'll like this. ...more
Somewhat horrifying into about how inept the CIA is here in the US...along with some interesting analysis about some of the major headline grabbing assault cases of the past decade.
If you like Gladwell, you'll like this. ...more
This book is not about what you think it's about. And I'm not sure I would've picked it up had I known what it IS about.
Don't get me wrong - Gladwell's thesis about the assumptions we make of strangers is intriguing. But his use of certain examples from the not-so-distant past, horrifying tales of pedophilia (Jerry Sandusky) and sexual assault (Brock Turner) and police encounters gone awry for a Black woman (Sandra Bland), makes his theory fall flat. The author attempts to pull on a supposed com ...more
Don't get me wrong - Gladwell's thesis about the assumptions we make of strangers is intriguing. But his use of certain examples from the not-so-distant past, horrifying tales of pedophilia (Jerry Sandusky) and sexual assault (Brock Turner) and police encounters gone awry for a Black woman (Sandra Bland), makes his theory fall flat. The author attempts to pull on a supposed com ...more
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