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https://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/status/25833504237 https://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/status/25833504237 >Nobody half-understands a topic as lucidly as Malcol
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https://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/status/25833504237 https://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/status/25833504237
>Nobody half-understands a topic as lucidly as Malcolm Gladwell. Unless he's found one case study claiming the contrary.
https://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/big-data-vs-big-hair.html https://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/big-data-vs-big-...
>And now, finally, just for fun, we have the Coup de Gladwell:
>“I think millennials are very trusting,” Gladwell said. “And when they say they’re not...they’re bullshitting.”
>And there you have it, folks. Who needs data when you have Gladwellian Pronouncements. The future is not the era of Big Data...it is the era of Big Gladwell.
I don't trust Malcolm Gladwell to fully understand a topic, much less explain it to the public. This particular article is also suspicious because he's been pro-tobacco for decades: https://shameproject.com/profile/malcolm-gladwell-2/ https://shameproject.com/profile/malcolm-gladwell-2/