Comments on: Outliers’ KFS … be smart, but not too smart http://kenhoma.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/outliers-kfs-be-smart-but-not-too-smart/ News & Views on Marketing, Economics & Politics Thu, 23 May 2013 20:38:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Laj http://kenhoma.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/outliers-kfs-be-smart-but-not-too-smart/#comment-813 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:39:22 +0000 http://kenhoma.wordpress.com/?p=4284#comment-813 Gladwell makes everything glad and well again so that people who have no interest in the issue take away his comforting conclusions… Most of this is all common sense. What Gladwell doesn’t deal with are the extreme cases of genius and invention etc.

Gladwell is simply using the fact that most people are dealing with ideas of success that is within 2 standard deviations of the mean to argue that real giftedness isn’t important at much higher levels of success. Of course, gifts do not always come in the same form. Is Gladwell willing to argue that intelligence isn’t important when it comes to getting a Fields Medal? Or that the threshold isn’t so high that very few mortals will ever come within striking distance?

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