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I didn't like the implied ad hominems much 8/ Respect for Gladwell--;

• pmichaud 17y ago
  Am I to take the downvotes to mean we like to undermine the credibility of people by saying things like "...who is best known for his belief that black people are intellectually inferior to white people" before we address the actual data? It's cute, yeah, but it's also fallacious argumentation. Even if the smear is true, which Galdwell doesn't substantiate, it's not relevant to the data. He points out why the data is weak--and that part is fine--my issue was with his extraneous ad hominem. But apparently here on HN, ad hominems are a-ok, as long as they are clever and make for a good read, right?