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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
My favorite review of that book:
- Tonight I'm heading out to hear Malcolm Gladwell (yes, he of the hair) read from his new book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. The book tries to prove that your instant, gut reactions are actually more intelligent than your considered analyses. The problem, however, is that my instant, gut reaction is that the thesis is clever bullshit, which means that actually reading the book would be a wholehearted repudiation of its argument.
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Well, actually, the theory was that if you are well informed your gut reaction takes into account the things you would consider in a more involved analysis but in proper proportion.
