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Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
q:
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--- Quote from: chin on 13 September 2009, 02:12:04 ---Yes, it's an interesting light reading. I picked up two of his books (Outliers & Tipping Point) at the recent promotion. Outliers is more interesting reading for me than the other one.
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Overall the book is a story telling style and it gave you much of his viewpoints, for example relaying unrelated events. But it's this style sometimes make me uncomfortable: he just laid out the facts without further supports. And the most serous problem of his judgement was I think he misunderstood the cause and effect by using statistics inappropriately : 2 high correlated events don't imply one is the cause of the other, or vice versa.
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I've read some of Malcolm Gladwell's articles, and heard him on the Radio Lab podcast (a very interesting popular science podcast). His stories are very interesting, and engaging, but I think he sometimes falls into the trap of what Nassim Taleb calls the Narrative Fallacy. But, then again he wouldn't sell millions of books if the stories he told were rigorously academic :)
kido:
--- Quote from: q on 03 September 2010, 13:23:20 ---I've read some of Malcolm Gladwell's articles, and heard him on the Radio Lab podcast (a very interesting popular science podcast). His stories are very interesting, and engaging, but I think he sometimes falls into the trap of what Nassim Taleb calls the Narrative Fallacy. But, then again he wouldn't sell millions of books if the stories he told were rigorously academic :)
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Agree, wiki'ed Narrative Fallacy.
That sounds interesting that we come across Teleb's name several times when we discuss Gladwell's book(s). Chin mentioned that Gladwell interviewed Teleb, but then Gladwell himeself fell into the Narrative Fallacy which the term was invented by Teleb. :) [ maybe I should read the Black Swan sometimes later... ]
hangchoi:
Went to HMV to buy a few DVDs and found that they are selling books too.
Then I bought another book from Malcolm Gladwell, Tipping Point. It is just HKD49. Now it is on my reading list...... ;D
chin:
--- Quote from: hangchoi on 03 February 2013, 23:17:43 ---Went to HMV to buy a few DVDs and found that they are selling books too.
Then I bought another book from Malcolm Gladwell, Tipping Point. It is just HKD49. Now it is on my reading list...... ;D
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Cheap now.
Is HMV going under?
hangchoi:
--- Quote from: chin on 04 February 2013, 01:48:44 ---Cheap now.
Is HMV going under?
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I would say they need cash, desperately need cash. They are selling their inventory at discount up to 50%, some local movie DVDs are selling at even higher discount.
I bought a few DVDs too, none of them costs me more than HKD35.
It may be a good time to enrich your collection.
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