Steve Sailer on Mr Gladwell
What is telling is I do not have to give you the first name. (Disclaimer - there is some regrettable family history with his family).But with Rondi and Steve Sailer, I am mystified why anyone would buy any of those books (I have not).
I shall quote some Sailer:
But, not surprisingly, Gladwell also embodies the chief shortcomings of contemporary journalism: a complete lack of realism and skepticism.
He has neither the intellectual capacity nor the moral character to question his sources rigorously. So he ends up just recasting their self-interested talking points in a more reader-friendly format.
The great thing about Gladwell is that he’s so lacking in critical thinking skills that he just blurts out the underlying assumptions of today’s conventional wisdom, stating its stupidities in their Platonic form. To Gladwell, the long, laborious, and expensive development of the computer isn’t a great accomplishment of Western civilization for which posterity should be grateful. No, it’s a civil rights issue. See, back in 1968, "our world" hadn’t "allowed" enough teenagers—especially not enough black and Mexican ones, to use state-of-the-art time-sharing computers.
Read the whole thing.
posted by Alan Adamson @ 4:09 AM
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