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What ya'll think of Malcolm Gladwell's "thin slicing theory"

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Trauma-san:

--- Quote from: Allah's Slave: Abdul-Infinite on March 19, 2006, 01:10:37 PM ---He has a book called "Blink" he put out in 2004, it's still a best-seller.  I go into it in more detail later, but the basis of the hypothesis is this...

You can know more about a person or a situation in a blink of an eye, then you would learn through years of analysis, because our brain is equipped with an ability of "thin slicing" in which it can automatically weed through all the excess information and focus instantly on what is most important.

^^what ya'll think.

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There's another book called "Think, don't blink" that I agree with more.  It basically says that sometimes your first impulse isn't correct, and as higher primates we need to use our mind to it's fullest capacity. 

nibs:
i saw gladwell speak about "blink" on c-span's book tv, i didn't like the idea at all.  a dirty cop could use his arguments to create a "blinkable" situation and then use that as a cover for murder.  when he was speaking, he basically wrote off the amadou diallo case as an instance where good cops may have found themselves in a bad situation.

i think buddy is deluded off his own sense of self enlightenment.

think of a common bully.  a bully will use mockery and taunting to bait a weaker target into starting a fight they are sure to lose.  using gladwell's arguments, a more crafty bully would create the same situation through more subtle means; and then step back and argue "i only reacted to this bad situation". 

gladwell's arguments, that i heard, could easily be used as a blueprint for an effective form of manipulation.  i remember thinking to myself "this guy's ideas are dangerous" while watching his speech.

Teddy Roosevelt:

--- Quote from: Allah's Slave: Abdul-Infinite on March 19, 2006, 08:47:14 PM ---
--- Quote from: Chief on March 19, 2006, 06:28:18 PM ---ohhhh you mean like judging people ?

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no, it's way more than that, he does a case study in the book about a marriage counselor who can tell in just 3 minutes of observing a couples conversation whether or not they will get a divorce, with 95% accuracy.  He also does case studies concerning cops and military generals.

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So it's reading body language to interpert what someone is really thinking, whether they know it or it's subconcience.

jeromechickenbone:
Well since I haven't read the book, I can't give an accuarate opinion on its contents.  There is definitely something to be said about trusting one's natural intuition.  As I've gotten older, I've gotten more keen on my own intuition.  I've gotten better and better at sizing up situations / people quickly.  A lot of times, I'll get a feeling about something, not necessarily good or bad, but I won't truly know how to react to it.  Then later, something might come to fruition, and I'll be like "so that's why I was feeling that".  Not on a psychic level, I think it's just years of wisdom and experience, and getting better at identifying things.

My wife has an uncanny ability at character identification.  I'll introduce her to certain people, whether it be co-workers or old friends, and there have been times when she says she gets bad vibes from them.  Over time, I've learned to really trust her intutions in situations like that. (fucking women's intuition I guess)

Having said all that, in no way do I think you can blindly walk around judging everything within a minute of being introduced to it.  This is evidenced by the numerous people that "know" me, yet would never guess in 1,000 years some of the things i've done / still do.

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