> The Igon Value Problem is a way of summarizing the lack of depth often encountered in modern journalism that focuses on esoteric subjects in which the journalist (or any writer in general) is not personally an expert.

If eigenvalues and determinants are esoteric knowledge in this day and age then I don’t want to live anymore.

Joking aside, things like these place content Gladwell has said or written under suspicion, because now we are dealing with the Gellman amnesia effect across a broader scope of work and subject matter.

A once in awhile mishap is one thing, typos are common even in the most densely technical of texts. But MG has a history of making lateral jumps to derive nonsensical conclusions to support completely unfounded statements. Elsewhere on the internet we have a term for that sort of creative, lateral thinking: shitposting.