![]() ![]() ![]() What this means is that a context in which a person is observed can give vastly different types of information about that person than other, equally valid, contexts. ![]() Having certain expectations about any given situation based on very little information is much more common and widespread, in ways both good and bad, then people would like to think. He first delves into the concept of "thin-slicing" - in which he argues that sometimes it is necessary only to have a small amount of information in order to make important, and also effective, decisions. This moment, or "blink", is what Gladwell focuses his argument on throughout the book. How could it be that months of meticulous testing could be disaffirmed by a split-second judgment, albeit by experts? However, when experts of the kouros had a first look at it, they almost immediately stated that it was a fake. It was arguably the most pristine of any one of its counterparts found, and was subjected to extensive geological tests. It looks at the Getty Museum in Southern California, which bought what turned out to be a highly controversial piece of work called a kouros (a type of Greek sculpture from antiquity). ![]() Author Malcolm Gladwell starts off Blink with one of his many anecdotes - and it is the anecdote that serves as one of his primary tools of argument (the other being scientific studies). ![]()
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