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[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of Steven Pinker's essay on Malcolm Gladwell:

In the spirit of Gladwell, who likes to give portentous names to his aperçus, I will call this the Igon Value Problem: when a writer’s education on a topic consists in interviewing an expert, he is apt to offer generalizations that are banal, obtuse or flat wrong.

https://archive.is/fvev2