What are some claims by Malcolm Gladwell that are incorrect?

He famously wrote "The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted." just a few months before the Arab Spring, where social media arguably played at the very least a coordinating role, so he's apparently missed out on the power of social media to impact real-world action and behavior. read more

Gladwell does cite some evidence to support this claim, including some research on college-admissions statistics. However, his assertion that "It's just like hockey" is almost certainly wrong. To investigate the claim for myself, I gathered data on the more than 3000 domestic students admitted to Caltech since 1985. read more

Malcolm Gladwell (Hachette Book Group) Malcolm Gladwell got us wrong: Our research was key to the 10,000-hour rule, but here’s what got oversimplified Yes, it takes effort to be an expert. read more

Two things. First, 10,000 hours was just an average. Across the gifted violinists Ericsson and his colleagues studied to come up with that figure, "there was a fair amount of variability," he says. Some attained greatness after much less practice. Some needed more. read more