Thursday, December 08, 2005
The Tipping Point discussion #2
Describe an idea or study from the book that you find fascinating. Explain how it relates to Gladwell's claim on p. 257 that the "theory of Tipping Points requires ... that we reframe the way we think about the world."
# posted by Randy Barnett @ 3:26 PM 
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One of the ideas and studies in the book which actually to some degree really did force me to "reshape the way [I] think about the world, was the idea that really nurture, at least evidentially speaking, has far less impact than most (myself certainly included) tend to believe.
A specific study Gladwell describes is the Colorado Adoption Project from the 1970s. 245 preganant women gave their children up for adoption and tests run periodically throught the kids childhood showed that their scroes had no realtion to their adopted parents scroes, but were close to their parents. As gladwell says, "the adopted kids did no resemble their adoptive parentsd at all"
What these findings and lack of counter-findings show is that nurture doesn't have the same power most thuink it does. And so to understant why people act the way they do, we have to stop assuming its based on nurture, and reshape our understanding of why the tipping point even exists.
In the end, the tipping point is based on how people act. And to understand, we must reshape our views of why.
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A specific study Gladwell describes is the Colorado Adoption Project from the 1970s. 245 preganant women gave their children up for adoption and tests run periodically throught the kids childhood showed that their scroes had no realtion to their adopted parents scroes, but were close to their parents. As gladwell says, "the adopted kids did no resemble their adoptive parentsd at all"
What these findings and lack of counter-findings show is that nurture doesn't have the same power most thuink it does. And so to understant why people act the way they do, we have to stop assuming its based on nurture, and reshape our understanding of why the tipping point even exists.
In the end, the tipping point is based on how people act. And to understand, we must reshape our views of why.
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