Monthly Archives: December 2008

David Brooks wrote a very thoughtful column in the New York Times yesterday on “Outliers.” Much of what he said was very flattering. I have just two comments in response. 1. Brooks argues that I “slight the centrality of individual… Continue reading →

My latest New Yorker piece, “Most Likely to Succeed” is now up. A couple of additional thoughts. In some of the responses to the piece, I’ve seen some resistance to the idea that choosing NFL quarterbacks and choosing public school… Continue reading →

In my new book “Outliers,” I spend a chapter trying to explain why Asian schoolchildren perform so much better at mathematics than their Western counterparts. The principal source of data on international math achievement is what’s called TIMS–which is a… Continue reading →