A 14 time All Star, 6 time NBA Champion, a Hall of Famer, and much more, all of these successes from one amazing basketball player, one as good may never appear in the NBA again. Many immediately think of Michael Jordan, and have asked how Jordan was so good. In the chapter “The Matthew Effect”, Malcolm Gladwell argues how it is not only skill that results in being successful, but that it is the time when you were born, saying that being born in the first six months of the year gives more time to mature as well as learn alongside those who are older, creating a greater chance of success. Throughout “The Matthew Effect”, Malcolm Gladwell effectively uses, and relies on, experimental evidence and inductive reasoning to support his claim that
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Gladwell has many incidents where he uses inductive reasoning where he allows the reader to conclude of what will happen or what the answer may be. Gladwell first introduces this when he states in the text “Do you see it? Don’t feel bad if you don’t, because for many years in the hockey world no one did. It wasn’t until the mid-1980s, in fact, that a Canadian psychologist named Roger Barnsley first drew attention to the phenomenon of relative age.” this allows the reader to go back and look at the hockey players birthdays and realize that most of the hockey players all have a birthday within the first 6 months of a year as well as that they are all relatively close to one another. This then leads to the reader connecting it to Gladwell’s argument of how birthdays relate to success, by how Gladwell states how this allows there to be “hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot.” as the reader can conclude that being born earlier allows those people to be exposed with advantages and opportunities. Another example that is given is how Gladwell states that “A boy who turns ten on January 2, then, could be playing alongside someone who doesn’t turn ten until the end of the year – and at that age, in preadolescence, a twelve-month gap in age represents an enormous difference in physical maturity.” this allows the reader to conclude that those kids born at that time are really being given the greater opportunity. This then leads on to how “ … they also got a big head start, an opportunity that they neither deserved nor earned. And that opportunity played a critical role in their success.” which helps get the conclusion that from what is being stated it is true that birthdays affect a person’s success. As being born earlier
Gladwell has many incidents where he uses inductive reasoning where he allows the reader to conclude of what will happen or what the answer may be. Gladwell first introduces this when he states in the text “Do you see it? Don’t feel bad if you don’t, because for many years in the hockey world no one did. It wasn’t until the mid-1980s, in fact, that a Canadian psychologist named Roger Barnsley first drew attention to the phenomenon of relative age.” this allows the reader to go back and look at the hockey players birthdays and realize that most of the hockey players all have a birthday within the first 6 months of a year as well as that they are all relatively close to one another. This then leads to the reader connecting it to Gladwell’s argument of how birthdays relate to success, by how Gladwell states how this allows there to be “hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot.” as the reader can conclude that being born earlier allows those people to be exposed with advantages and opportunities. Another example that is given is how Gladwell states that “A boy who turns ten on January 2, then, could be playing alongside someone who doesn’t turn ten until the end of the year – and at that age, in preadolescence, a twelve-month gap in age represents an enormous difference in physical maturity.” this allows the reader to conclude that those kids born at that time are really being given the greater opportunity. This then leads on to how “ … they also got a big head start, an opportunity that they neither deserved nor earned. And that opportunity played a critical role in their success.” which helps get the conclusion that from what is being stated it is true that birthdays affect a person’s success. As being born earlier