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Outliers REVIEW Background & Space Cat

The definition of an outlier

Author’s Purpose and tone of the book as a whole

The exigence and audience

The context of the book in regards to SPACECAT

Introduction: The Roseto Mystery

Understand the background of the Rosetans and their health

Where are they from and where did they settle?

Know about the hockey teams and what Gladwell studied about them and his results

What does birth month have to do with anything?

What is the “Matthew Effect”?

What is achieving success a matter of?

Part 1, Chapter 2, The 10,000-Hour Rule

What’s the 10,000 rule? What examples are given?’

Bill Joy- know all the stuff about him

Bill Gates- know all the stuff about him

The Beatles- know the details

Steve Jobs- know all the stuff about him

What is interesting about the 75 richest people in human history?

Part 1, Chapter 3, The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 1

What is the “threshold effect”?

What is a “divergence test”?

Chris Langan- know all the stuff about him

Louis Terman and the Termites- what/who are they?.

Part 1, Chapter 4, The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 2

Robert Oppenheimer vs. Langan

The Manhattan Project

Annette Lareau and what she studied and what she determined

Part 1, Chapter 5, The Three Lessons of Joe Flom

Joe Flom’s childhood and college and post college

Circumstances that contributed to Flom’s success

What was Gladwell’s purpose in telling the anecdote about Alexander Bickel?

Part 2, Chapter 6, Harlan, Kentucky

What pattern does Gladwell examine in Kentucky?

Understand Culture of Honor

Understand Cultural Legacy

Part 2, Chapter 7, The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes

Korean airlines investigation- what was determined

How does Gladwell feel about this?

What contributing factors cause plane crashes?