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I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.

Malcolm Gladwell

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Malcolm Gladwell
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 3
Journalist
Screenwriter
Sociologist
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Malcolm Timothy Gladwell
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