<p> So, <a href="//2010/03/01/malcolm-gladwells-outliers">I am on record</a> as being somewhat skeptical about Malcolm Gladwell&#39;s books: with with a style that demands that he work to demonstrate his thesis across a broad set of subjects some of which his knowledge must be necessarily shallow…it is perhaps unsurprising that on subjects where I have deep knowledge, I often feel like he has let a desire to fit his thesis distort the facts. Probably not intentionally, but it still feels like it means you must take all of it with a grain of salt.</p>