Presumably that people who know what they’re talking about are less likely to make obvious errors in jargon. And that Gladwell was the person who made that particular error in jargon, in the very book that’s being quoted, and that this is an example of Gladwell’s glibness and lack of deeper knowledge of things he’s talking about in this case and in general.
It’s sort of an odd example, though, since Gladwell himself consistently succeeds.
ETA: Given the downvote, maybe I should clarify that I don’t mean that Gladwell succeeds at being the kind of writer that I would want to read. I mean that he consistently succeeds at writing best-selling books. The “igon-value” thing was cringe-inducing, but it plausibly hasn’t done any significant harm to his sales. Apparently, you can be careless in that way and still succeed fantastically, again and again, with his target audience.
So, in that sense, he’s not a good example for the claim that “people who success many times in the row, tend to employ eigenvalues rather than use igon value.” (Though, of course, his existence doesn’t disproves the claim, either.)
Presumably that people who know what they’re talking about are less likely to make obvious errors in jargon. And that Gladwell was the person who made that particular error in jargon, in the very book that’s being quoted, and that this is an example of Gladwell’s glibness and lack of deeper knowledge of things he’s talking about in this case and in general.
It’s sort of an odd example, though, since Gladwell himself consistently succeeds.
ETA: Given the downvote, maybe I should clarify that I don’t mean that Gladwell succeeds at being the kind of writer that I would want to read. I mean that he consistently succeeds at writing best-selling books. The “igon-value” thing was cringe-inducing, but it plausibly hasn’t done any significant harm to his sales. Apparently, you can be careless in that way and still succeed fantastically, again and again, with his target audience.
So, in that sense, he’s not a good example for the claim that “people who success many times in the row, tend to employ eigenvalues rather than use igon value.” (Though, of course, his existence doesn’t disproves the claim, either.)
Nerds fear getting Malcolm Gladwell book for Christmas (The Daily Mash)