Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion 'Outliers', anyone reading it??

So far a pretty fun read, I am about half way through. Not sure how much of it I completely buy, but the idea of circumstance/chance and plain old practice playing such a massive massive role in whether people get by, much less hit their potential, is very interesting.
The sports team info is jaw dropping.

At the same time the authors sort of states that iq can be easily negated by these other factors he also vindicates the parents/community efforts to make the circumstances meet a child's potential.
The tooth and nail fights many of us have to get our kids into a program where they are not bored out of their skulls does indeed appear to be the thing to do, at leat according to this one author/book.

http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Stor...mp;s=books&qid=1227360296&sr=8-1

I could use more charts/data, but it is certainly thought provoking.

Curious if anyone else is reading this.