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Malcolm Gladwell

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

CHAPTER

The Importance of Observing a Baseball Player Playing Baseball

In retrospect, that case is so weird to go back and read about it in retrospect. Like they were legit large portions of the western citizenry who were convinced that she was some kind of crazed, blood-sucking murderous. They are observing what they believe to be discrepancies in her behavior,. jumping to all kinds of absurd conclusions just as the cop did in the Sandra Bland case. Not even that stopping to realize, oh, I'm talking to an 18 year old, an immature 18 year old from another culture who expresses her grief in different ways. To me, this reminded me a little bit of Moneyball, that sort of Billy Bean theory of baseball, which is that no one

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