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Agreed. The problem is that nobody (or hopefully, very few) people ever took 'MP: Holy Grail' as historically accurate. As someone with a degree in Decision Sci
by jamesbkel 17y ago
Agreed.
The problem is that nobody (or hopefully, very few) people ever took 'MP: Holy Grail' as historically accurate.
As someone with a degree in Decision Science my main issue is not so much with Gladwell, but the fact that most people I encounter assume since it's in a book which references scholarly articles that it's true.
- camccann 17y agoYeah, I don't mean to bash Gladwell himself either. At times he indulges in glib bullshitting[0] but his infectious enthusiasm for exploring neat-sounding ideas is charming, and refreshing compared to some of the utter tripe that's out there. And he really is an excellent writer. The downside is his books ending up in the hands of people whose capacity for entertaining novel ideas far exceeds their capacity for rational critical thinking. [0] "Bullshit" in the sense of H. Frankfurt's technical term for assertions intended neither to inform nor deceive.