> ...anyway. I'd say this is partly the New Yorker cocktail party chatter format, but Outliers was a book, and he could have raised the level above chatter, and he really ultimately doesn't go beyond saying something lightly dangerous.
I dunno. There were some flaws in the details, but I was struck how a mainstream book in the US could have the central thesis that circumstances trump talent and application. Or is your point that I was filling in the blanks?
-- Andy