Malcolm gladwell asked 75 students to answer ten simple questions. The answers were used to generate a score, which they wrote on a giant white sticker with a big fat sharpy. If the students can figure out what their number means, they will understand something essential about how broken the system was that propelled them to the ivy league and how to fix it.
Did Malcolm Gladwell blow it in his bestselling book Outliers? What if all he did was write a primer for neurotic helicopter parents? To find out, Revisionist History descends on the University of Pennsylvania to run a roomful of eager students through a mysterious experiment, complete with Sharpies, huge white stickers, and a calculator. It does not end well.
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