People have different understandings and definitions of what an outlier is. According to the dictionary, outlier means a person or thing situated away or detached from the main body or system. If you ask me, an outlier is someone who figures out the solution to a problem that someone else couldn’t. Malcolm Gladwell’s definition of an outlier is a person that works hard to be successful and its intelligence is far above than an average person. In The Outliers, Gladwell shows us his beliefs by giving us a short summary of his chosen outliers.
Gladwell introduces his book by telling us a little about the town named Roseto. A town in Pennsylvania found by Italian immigrants in the 19th century, named after a village in Italy. The town was first …show more content…
Death rates in this Italian infested town was extremely low, wasn’t quite normal from an outcast view. Physicians looked deeply into the situation but couldn’t seem to find any explanation for these results. That is until a doctor known as Stewart Wolf gave a quite interesting suggestion. Wolf suggested that maybe the town’s atmosphere, culture, traditions and friendly residents was what was preventing these town folks from becoming unhealthy. Gladwell must have found this quite an interesting mystery, enough to share it with us. From my view, he tried to show us that the unimaginable can happen and it definitely did in Roseto.
Another one of Gladwell’s examples of an outlier that was extremely interesting to me was “The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes”. He makes this theory known to us in chapter 7 along with compares and contrasts of plane accidents and how they were dealt with.
He starts the chapter off by describing the crash of Korean Airline Flight 801 in 1977. Gladwell explains that the pilot was an extremely experienced and was known for his safety precautions. According to the investigators of the plane crash, the pilot had trouble having a visible sight of the runway to land the plane. There were miscommunications between the first officer, the pilot and flight engineer. They realized too late that they were too close to land and soon crashed into a hillside, killing most of the 228 passengers
Gladwell introduces his book by telling us a little about the town named Roseto. A town in Pennsylvania found by Italian immigrants in the 19th century, named after a village in Italy. The town was first …show more content…
Death rates in this Italian infested town was extremely low, wasn’t quite normal from an outcast view. Physicians looked deeply into the situation but couldn’t seem to find any explanation for these results. That is until a doctor known as Stewart Wolf gave a quite interesting suggestion. Wolf suggested that maybe the town’s atmosphere, culture, traditions and friendly residents was what was preventing these town folks from becoming unhealthy. Gladwell must have found this quite an interesting mystery, enough to share it with us. From my view, he tried to show us that the unimaginable can happen and it definitely did in Roseto.
Another one of Gladwell’s examples of an outlier that was extremely interesting to me was “The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes”. He makes this theory known to us in chapter 7 along with compares and contrasts of plane accidents and how they were dealt with.
He starts the chapter off by describing the crash of Korean Airline Flight 801 in 1977. Gladwell explains that the pilot was an extremely experienced and was known for his safety precautions. According to the investigators of the plane crash, the pilot had trouble having a visible sight of the runway to land the plane. There were miscommunications between the first officer, the pilot and flight engineer. They realized too late that they were too close to land and soon crashed into a hillside, killing most of the 228 passengers