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...review, Pinker describes Gladwell as “a minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards of statistical reasoning and who occasionally blunders into spectacular failures...
...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...
...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...
...response, Pinker admitted that at least on the subject of sports, he was forced to turn to the “army of statistics-savvy amateurs” in the blogosphere. But he wrote that “what Malcolm Gladwell calls a ‘lonely ice floe’ is what psychologists call ‘the mainstream?...
Both Gladwell and Pinker declined to comment for this article...