On: NFL player IQ by position

[dpapathanasiou]

I suppose Gladwell likes Moneyball because it's everything his books are not: a Big Idea that is actually corroborated by all the evidence.

I remember reading Blink and thinking, "hey, this anecdote just contradicted a point he made earlier".

Gladwell is a great storyteller, but he wants so badly to find larger patterns at work that he overlooks the possibility that there aren't any.