Talk:Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

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

message: ===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)
thread_title: External Links

message: 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)
thread_title: Chapter Summaries

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  NPOV - Balanced view - citations to the book needed 

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message: 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)
thread_title:  Puff removed 

message: 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)
replies: text: "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)
thread_title: Criticism section NPOV

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

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

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