This makes me think of the critiques of Malcom Gladwell - essentially, that by focusing entirely on counterintuitive / surprising results, he often misrepresent

This makes me think of the critiques of Malcom Gladwell - essentially, that by focusing entirely on counterintuitive / surprising results, he often misrepresents the concepts he discusses... > These ideas are far from obvious, self-evident, or trivial. They do have the property of triggering a pleasurable rush of counterintuition, engaging a hindsight bias, and seeming correct once you have learned about them. [...] I think the result is the propagation of a lot of wrong beliefs among a vast audience of influential people. https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/malcolm-gladwell-critique-david-and-goliath-misrepresents-the-science.html https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/malcolm-gladwell-critiq...