Talk:Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Popularity of the Phrase
The article summary strongly implies that the phrase "tipping point" was not in common usage, or at least much more obscure before publication. I, for one, have been hearing the phrase all my life, in and out of academic circles. Unless there is some sort of citation indicating that this book has popularized the phrase, I think this sentence should be rewritten.

Misc
Mentioning the example of Priming used in the book would benefit the article for hypertextual navigation on its subject matter. 71.162.255.83 19:19, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

I've rewritten the entire thing. It didn't have enough detail. --Shreshth91 (eshtshray). 1 July 2005 04:41 (UTC)

Should the info on Think be in this article? This article is about Blink not Think. I suggest someone make a new article. &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by 154.20.161.143 (talk &bull; contribs).


 * Done. Moved to Think (book).-- May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|)  16:57, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Chapter Summaries
Readded link to chapter summaries for Blinkafter it was lost in a multi-tiered revert. The summary is a wiki under the GNU FDL license, so all text is "compatible" with Wikipedia. This page ads value in that it gives a more detailed view of the book that is outside of the accepted scope of Wikipedia. Geneffects 14:19, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

True, intuition does not have to be fast, however intuition means that we can not rationally or logically explain the action, gladwell's stories had that element in it though. I think if we have less time we use more intuition than logical thinking. It does not mean that intuition is better, just there is no time for other thinking. Ervinn 20:07, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Gladwell most certainly DOES use the word intuition in his book. Don't make stuff up! E.g: "Klein’s nurses and firefighters would size up a situation almost immediately and act, drawing on experience and intuition and a kind of rough mental simulation." It IS about rapid-cognition, but intuition is also an applicable term. --88.104.110.160 (talk) 01:20, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

NPOV - Balanced view - citations to the book needed
After reading this article I cannot help but feel that the author Malcolm Gladwell of the book many have a NPOV.

1. For example "he explores the power of the trained mind to make split second decisions, the ability to think without thinking, or in other words using instinct." is flawed because meaning of instinct is not the same meaning as a trained mind reacting quickly. Instinct, relates to stuff that is hard wired into are bodies as opposed to something we learn. Just like a computer has firmware and software.

FIXED THIS BIT --88.104.110.160 (talk) 01:28, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

2. The second aspect of this article that worries me is the authors claim that "In other words, spontaneous decisions are often as good as - or even better than - carefully planned and considered ones." That he is putting value without proof that something is better than something else. This is demonstrating in my minds eye a NPOV.

I understand that the previous editors of the wiki have no control over the contents of the book, and the book author probably makes those claims, however being wikipedia I feel as user:Amazins490 does that citations to within the contents of the book are required..

This post is to highlight some concerns I have about what is in my view obvious glaring problems with the authors narrative. I must add however I have not read the book, and am unable to judge how well the author has backed up his claims.

--Joewski 07:05, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Reading the book you will actually understand why he writes that way. He makes a point throughout the book that what we call instinct actually is very much based on our prejudice and what we have learned. And how those hard-wired reactions can be controlled and are results of our lives. --Wmasterj (talk) 16:10, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
 * He also nicely shows that when quick actions are needed, prejudice and hard-wired reactions can produce mistakes and errors, but we can train ourself this to be better and more accurate. Ervinn (talk) 18:43, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:56, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Puff removed
Took out the Praise section because it was like book jacket puffery, however if anyone has time to find critical reception with refs feel free to improve it, Julia Rossi (talk) 01:05, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Criticism section NPOV
Please see Literary criticism. Criticism of the book does not entail just negative reviews. With this book, there is both an opportunity to analyse the theory and the literary aspect of the book. As with any criticism, literary or theory, it has to be balanced. --RossF18 (talk) 18:03, 2 August 2008 (UTC)


 * "Literary criticism" has, as you point out, a special meaning. However, the "Criticism" section of this article is NOT a literary criticism, nor is it intended to be. The meaning of the word "criticism" in this context is well understood by most readers of Wikipedia articles about books: disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings. As such it is valuable, although I agree it could be greatly improved. Disclaimer: I wrote the criticism section for The Tipping Point --gilgongo (talk) 20:14, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Don't see any original research
I changed the WP:OR template to nofootnotes.

I think that this article accurately describes the ideas presented in the book. I am sympathetic to the editor who commented that the argument consists mostly of examples, however, this is a flaw in the book, not in this article. Gladwell's book relies heavily on examples.

(I would guess that he deliberately eschews theory to create a popular book. People like to read stories, not read philosophy books. I think that Gladwell's ideas are drawn from continental philosophy, e.g., Heidegger's idea of ready-to-hand or Kohler's theory of gestalt, but continental philosophy is almost unreadable. So he left the unreadable theory out. That's not the article's fault.)

I do agree that, in general, it is always better to use page-numbered references into the book, for no other reason than to avoid getting tagged as WP:OR. CharlesGillingham (talk) 22:37, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Redirect?
Is there any particular reason that "thin slicing" redirects to this article, while "thin-slicing" is its own article? Should that redirect be changed?

Pyrophosphate (talk) 05:09, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

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