Malcom Gladwell is a great story teller, but a terrible researcher. I had sworn to never buy another book by him even before seeing this news. He's BSing too much.
anecdotal evidence, sentimentalism, really small sample sizes (Beatles, Bill Gates -a sample size of TWO)
What bothers me so much is that his father is both an excellent teacher and researcher so he should have a good role model. I took a course from his father during my undergrad.
maybe it skips a generation of it's recessive
Gladwell could write a great book about that. _Skipped: How Genetics Shape Generations_