Friday, April 15, 2011

Malcolm Gladwell

Hello All,
As we discussed in class, the annotated bibliography for the Malcolm Gladwell article is due April 22.
Here are the articles from which to choose:
1. Open Secrets: Enron, Intelligence, and the Perils of too Much Information
2. Million-Dollar Murray: Why Problems like Homelessness May Be Easier to Solve Than to Manage
3. The Picture Problem: Mammography, Air Power, and the Limits of Looking
4. Connecting the Dots: The Paradoxes of Intelligence Reform
5. The Art of Failure: Why Some People Choke and Others Panic
6. Blowup: Who Can Be Blamed for a Disaster like the Challenger Explosion? No One, and We'd Better Get Used to It
7. Blowing Up: How Nassim Taleb Turned the Inevitability of Disaster into an Investment Strategy
8. How David Beats Goliath: When Underdogs Break the Rules

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gladwell, Malcolm. The Art of Failure: Why Some People Choke and Others Panic. New Yorker. 2000. Web

This article deals with the problem of panick and choking. The article begins with talking about a national tennis tournament. Jane Novotna was up and needed one more shot to win the whole tournament. Unfortunately, she began to think too much and eventually lost due to the pressure. This is called choking. The art of choking, says Gladwell, is something that all humans go through and causes the person to think back to when they were first learning the skill being performed and starts to analysis all the things they were doing earlier and lose their fluidity. He later goes on to explain that panic is the exact opposite. This is where the person thinks too little and begins to focus on one thing only and loses focus in everything else thus causing for a mistake to made in any other aspect besides the one being intensely focused upon.

I plan to use this in my research paper because one of my topics is psychology. This idea of panic and choking deals directly with psychology. Using the ideas and the ways panic and choking effect one's mind is what I mainly will talk about from Gladwell's article.

Trey Lovett

Anonymous said...

Gladwell, Malcolm. Blow up. New Yorker. 2000. Web
This article deals with the argument of human error preventing future accidents and catastrophes. The article begins with two major catastrophes that occurred in our countries history, the explosion of Challenger space shuttle and the Three Mile Island. Speaking her opinion on both subject Diana Vaughan, a Boston college sociologist, goes into dept of the concept of human error in disasters such as, the Challenger explosion and the Three Mile Island. Diana Vaughan implies that human error is part of the world we live in, especially with the up-rise of modern technology. She also lectures in ways that human errors are ways that we learn and experience ourselves to prevent future accidents. She later goes into how these occurrences of disaster happen naturally, not created. Later into the article, with the same logic, Yale Sociologist Charles Perrow also speaks of the normal function of disaster and faulty especially with technology. That everyone should expect the unexpected from technology in today’s world, not all technology is perfect.

I plan to use this for my research paper because one of my topics has to do with the field of engineering. It gives examples of faulty and errors that have happened in the field. Also how individuals fix and react to problems associated with engineering and how they learn from these errors. This will be most of what I will base my information on my research from Gladwell’s article.

-Brian D. Martinez

Anonymous said...

The article that i am going to be usin is called "The Art of Failure: Why Some People Choke and Others Panic." I chose this article because it ties in with my paper about psycology.
-Eduardo Torres

Plumomic said...

The article that i am going to be usin is called "The Art of Failure: Why Some People Choke and Others Panic." I chose this article because it ties in with my paper about psycology. -Eduardo Torres