Let me know what you think of Outliers.

I certainly wasn’t saying Gladwell’s first two volumes were better than _Outliers_. I haven’t read the latest book, so I can’t make a comparison.

Nor am I upset by how popular Gladwell has become, and how I’m not longer unique for having read him. His first book, Tipping Point, was a New York Times best-seller.

I also wasn’t saying that I’m out there reading real anthropologist or sociologists. The book I mention in my post is a marketing book, written by a journalist, just as qualified or unqualified to write about social trends as Gladwell.

What I did say was that, based on the evidence of his last two books, he does not have a stellar track record for creating real insights into human behavior. Both Tipping Point and Blink have had their central hypotheses widely debunked.

I was in no way implying I’m “smarter” than Gladwell. I’m not sure why that would matter.

What I was implying was that Gladwell, and the style of “insight” he has advanced with his writing, has been proven as being largely a giant crock of shit.

Our relative scores on an IQ test won’t change that fact.