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Story-telling is what struck me (and what I liked) about the New York Times and the New Yorker when I first started to read them, especially as I'm a Briton and
by tarkin2 16y ago
Story-telling is what struck me (and what I liked) about the New York Times and the New Yorker when I first started to read them, especially as I'm a Briton and not use to that style.
Argument by analogue, and story-telling, reminds me of what I found unsettling about freakanomics and gladwell's work. Not that I didn't enjoy those books, I did. But I was oftentimes only left with the story.
- nollidge 16y agoI too immediately thought of Freakanomics and Malcolm Gladwell, as well as Thomas Friedman. There seems to be a trend of writing books around "anecdata", as the OP calls it - anecdotes presented as patterns, while failing to account for selection bias in the process. Of course, there's probably an irony in the fact that I drew a trend from merely four anecdotes as well...