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bophew 's review for:
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
by Malcolm Gladwell
I hadn't read anything by Gladwell since high school so I wasn't sure how I'd feel about it this time around... Turned out to be pretty much the same....
While it was a quick and easy-to-read way to get a glimpse of some interesting research in some cases...and I don't doubt each piece of research has merit on its own, to thread all of it into an overeaching hypothesis is far-fetched and stupid at best, and pretty dangerous at worst.
Not to dismiss the interesting points and stories (there were some), but reading a bunch of disparate studies in totally different areas of research and connecting them under some grand relevation about human nature like this is barely above a conspiracy theory.
"I've connected the dots"
Sir, you have NOT in fact connected anything, you do not possess the skillset necessary for such an undertaking, nor should you be putting this out in mainstream "knowledge."
While it was a quick and easy-to-read way to get a glimpse of some interesting research in some cases...and I don't doubt each piece of research has merit on its own, to thread all of it into an overeaching hypothesis is far-fetched and stupid at best, and pretty dangerous at worst.
Not to dismiss the interesting points and stories (there were some), but reading a bunch of disparate studies in totally different areas of research and connecting them under some grand relevation about human nature like this is barely above a conspiracy theory.
"I've connected the dots"
Sir, you have NOT in fact connected anything, you do not possess the skillset necessary for such an undertaking, nor should you be putting this out in mainstream "knowledge."