The Game Theory by Malcolm Gladwell‚ gives amazing insight into the world of professional sport statistics. Gladwell argues that athletic dominance in a team sport can’t always be seen by the eye. Allen Iverson‚ for instance‚ was the 2001-2002 NBA’s Most Valuable Player. He was viewed as one of the best basketball players of his generation. However an algorithm devised by David Berry‚ Martin Schmidt‚ and Stacey Brook‚ shows the true value of a basketball player by grading their number of wins they
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Focus Questions 1. In the novel‚ Outliers‚ the author‚ Malcolm Gladwell‚ defines key factors that leads one to be successful. To begin with‚ Gladwell asserts that “parentage and patronage” are key factors of success (19). In other words‚ success is measured based on one’s maturity level. For example‚ a younger child in the same grade level as an older child is more likely to be at a disadvantage because he/sh e lacks the cognitive skills that the older child has developed. Therefore‚ the older child
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Period: 2 Book Title: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Genre: Psychology/Self-Help Author: Malcolm Gladwell Number of Pages: 286 Brief Summary and “Arrangement” of the Book: Malcom Gladwell published the most pleasant book‚ “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking‚” which he extended the landmark style of his number one international bestseller The Tipping Point. Gladwell transformed the ideas of how people understand the world within its rapid decisions. The Blink is about
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The 10‚000 Hour Rule: Just How True is it? On page 40 of Outliers‚ a novel written by pop-psych author Malcolm Gladwell‚ neurologist Daniel Levitin explains‚ “The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world class-expert--- in anything.” Gladwell takes this quote and heavily relies on it with his thesis for the next chapter‚ which basically says that anyone can become a master in anything with
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Blink‚ by Malcolm Gladwell’s‚ discusses the idea of thin slicing‚ the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations from small samples. Gladwell also delves into the positive and negative effects of snap judgments and how people come to conclusions withoutbeing consciously aware of doing so. One topic of the book that intrigued me was the research of John Gottman and Paul Ekman. Gottman is a psychologist and professor who has spent most of his career studying interpersonal relationships
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As explained in Blink by Gladwell and Payne‚ unconscious discrimination is a type of discrimination that is very hard to recognize. We have all heard about explicit discrimination‚ which can take two forms: the individual level and the institutional level. At the individual level‚ people openly like. This can be seen in the case of bias hiring when an employer tells a postulant; “I will not hire you because you are a female.” At the institutional level‚ one of the most striking examples of discrimination
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profits and received over 2‚500 inquiries from potential investors. How did Alexander turn a seemingly defunct industry into a trending‚ booming‚ electric business? An explanation for this can be found by using The Tipping Point‚ a nonfiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell. The Tipping Point uses Gladwell’s self-dubbed Laws of Epidemics such as the Power of Context‚ the Law of Few‚ and the Stickiness Factor to help
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Many tipping points exist throughout the history of the health care system of the United States‚ more so than can be discussed here. Addressed‚ will be a few key tipping points over the last hundred years that‚ without them‚ the system would stand as it does today. The first tipping point is the establishment of the American Medical Association in 1847 and their subsequent creation of the Committee on National Legislation at the turn of the century. As a first act‚ the AMA instituted the first
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Prince William and Kate Middleton are expecting their second child Fabien Wiktor Photo Abacapress The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit the poppy field ceramic planted as part of the commemorations of the centenary of the First World War‚ on August 5 in London. It’s finally official: Prince William and his wifeCatherine are expecting their second child. A short press release issued this morning by Kensington Palace‚ the official residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge‚ has confirmed
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In the book "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell‚ the central theory that Gladwell presents is that often the decisions and observations made in only a split-second‚ in the blink of the eye‚ are better than decisions which are made after extensive thought. To present and justify this idea Gladwell describes the lives of several people who make‚ or have made‚ important snap decisions with a high level of success or failure. He then explains the logic behind each story and relates it back to his original principle
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