They were poor and living in the farthest corners of the Bronx. How did they afford tickets? Mary got a quarter, Friedman says. There was a Mary who was a ticket taker, and if you gave Mary a quarter,...
They have a national policy where they have no ability grouping until the age of ten. Denmark waits to make selection decisions until maturity differences by age have evened out.
There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.
The IQ fundamentalist Arthur Jensen put it thusly in his 1980 book Bias in Mental Testing (p. 113): The four socially and personally most important threshold regions on the IQ scale are those that dif...
The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon section, is what the psychologist Robert Sternberg c...
The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally fro...
That’s not because journalists know more about Japan. It’s because they knew less: they had the ability to sort through what they knew and find a pattern.
Successful people don’t do it alone. Where they come from matters. They’re products of particular places and environments.
Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.
Students who attend what they considered to be their first-choice school were less likely to persist in a biomedical or behavioral science major, they write. You think you want to go to the fanciest s...
So what does correlate with brain size? The answer, Dunbar argues, is group size. If you look at any species of primate-at every variety of monkey and ape-the larger their neocortex is, the larger the...
Owe no one anything except to love one another;
Over the past decade, the anti-smoking movement has railed against the tobacco companies for making smoking cool and has spent untold millions of dollars of public money trying to convince teenagers t...
One of the most important tools in contemporary educational research is value added analysis.
Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the ve...
Of course, kids don't always like repetition. Whatever they are watching has to be complex enough to allow, upon repeated exposure, for deeper and deeper levels of comprehension. At the same time, it...
In the end, Tipping Points are the reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action.
In the end, Tipping Points are a reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action. Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not...
Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!
All of us, when it comes to personality, naturally think in terms of absolutes: that a person is a certain way or is not a certain way. But what Zimbardo and Hartshorne and May are suggesting is that...
