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...eccentric food” or Europe’s chalk country, and allows his topic to elucidate a truism about society with such finesse that it seems accidental. Rather than spend pages reveling in the significance of what he has found—like Gladwell??the most poignant insights are sown unassumingly amid expository passages, leaving the patient reader to experience the joy of discovery that McPhee must have felt during his research...
...acclaimed journalist and author of a number of bestsellers including “Blink” and “Tipping Point,” Gladwell??s new book is a collection of essays on topics ranging from the origins of ketchup to the inspiration for Led Zeppelin’s music...
Pinker, himself author of a number of popular texts on cognitive psychology including “How the Mind Works,” argues against Gladwell??s claim that I.Q. scores are not good predictors of success in the job market...
Pinker’s book review, published on Nov. 7 in the New York Times, gave Gladwell??s new book a lukewarm reception. He praised Gladwell for aspects of the work, but criticized his lack of knowledge of statistics and psychology and his use of “banal” generalizations...
...review touched off a series of responses and rebuttals published by the New York Times in the form of letters to the editor. Gladwell??s response defended the accuracy of his essays and criticized Pinker for using a source he referred to as “a California blogger...who is perhaps best known for his belief that black people are intellectually inferior to white people...