Case Study Patrick's Two Outliers

Throughout the process of how Canadian hockey sport selects their top of the top hockey players for the Memorial Cup, Gladwell proves that these top players are successful not only because of their hard work but also because of the advantage of the earlier birth month which give them more opportunity in the competence compared to others who was born in later month of the year. Gladwell argues that the inequitable “cutoff date matter” as in “other […] areas” (33), for example in education. He urges that our society need to change the way we think of success in which “we miss opportunities to lift others” (32). He also suggests that education system should change to let children “compete” each others whose don’t

11. For the scores (2, 2, 0, 5, 1, 4, 1, 3, 0, 0, 1, 4, 4, 0, 1, 4, 3, 4, 2, 1, 0): N = 21; Sum = 42; Mean = (2+2+0+5+1+4+1+3+0+0+1+4+4+0+1+4+3+4+2+1+0)/21 = 2.0; Median = (0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,4,4,4,4,4,5) = 2.0; Sum of Squared Deviations (SS) = (2-2)2+(2-2)2+(0-2)2+(5-2)2+(1-2)2+(4-2)2+ … (0-2)2 = 56.0; SD2 = SS/N = 56/21 = 2.67; SD = 2.67 = 1.63.

The standard Deviation comparing both sets of data only shows a slight difference on the numbers (a difference of only 1.38187054), but in the histograms both show a huge difference on the frequencies of each data set, but shows a similarity on the cumulative percentage. Data set #2 seem to be more stable even though the grades of the student were lower than data set #1. Data set#2 shows a relative stability in regards the frequency on the histograms, when comparing the frequency histograms data set #2 has more frequency on number two’s than data set #1 on frequency on the number three’s. In this case Data set #2 shows a normal distribution behavior.

For years there have been debates on weather or not marijuana should be legalized. Now the controversial issue we face is the legalization of medical marijuana. Currently several states such as California and most recently Michigan has legalized marijuana for medicinal purposes. Many people believe that this drug should be legalized for medical use, and others disagree. Either way you look at this situation people are going to continuing smoking marijuana if it’s legal or not. Keeping marijuana illegal is expensive and should be legalized for the citizens of Ohio who require it for its medicinal use.

Malcolm Gladwell insists throughout his book, Outliers: The Story of Success, that the recipe for achievement is not simply based on personal talents or innate abilities alone. Gladwell offers the uncommon idea that outliers largely depend upon “extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies” (Gladwell19). According to Gladwell, successful men and women are beneficiaries of relationships, occasions, places, and cultures. The author draws on a different case study in each chapter to support a particular argument concerning success. Despite his indifference and suppression in regards to counterarguments, Gladwell’s claims are effective for many reasons, including through the accounts of experts, tone and style of writing, and the

We are presented with a theory that there aren’t any successful self-made people, which we know is contrary to popular beliefs. This theory was presented by Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Outliers: The Story of Success. The theory is further defined by the premise that holds that success is enabled by a person’s culture, environment, when and where they were born, and a strong work ethic. These theories and examples of success are analyzed using the textbook, Leadership: Research Findings, Practice, and Skills (2015) by Andrew DuBrin. Several examples are provided in this paper that illustrate and support Gladwell’s thoughts on opportunity and cultural legacy.

5. The standard deviations of the groups are different between these two data sets. This implies that both girls and the boys groups have a large variability in their data. The reason is that the standard deviation for boys is 5.9 and the standard deviation for girls is 5.0. This means the data has a wide range of data within the mean.

All of the test scores averages were very low. The results also did not make sense because today, color is a big attention grabber and a distracter. The reason behind this is possibly because people needed a warm up or practice before the first trial. The extraneous variables could have also caused the results as well. Some extraneous variables were the yelling from the other room outside that may have distracted them. Another variable may be the room temperature the participants were in. The last variable that may have caused the results were the uncomfortable chairs and the table height for the different sized participants.

The following table is titled BarOn EQ2.0 Results. The BarOn EQ2.0 is designed to measure emotional intelligence. The following table displays the total EQi 2.0 score, the composite scores, and content scores (each score delves deeper into specific details regarding one’s results). The table is to read from left to right. A score of 0 to 90 is considered a low range, a score of 90-110 would be considered mid range, and finally a score of 110 to 140 would be considered the high range. The total score of 89 is a result of the average of all my scores, this would be considered the low range, just below the mid range area.

An Outlier is someone who stands out in a group due to their mastery of a certain skill and because of that they are successful. According to Gladwell not anyone can become successful; it takes the right circumstances and opportunities. Human’s capability seems limitless, and if we put in the time and hard work we can achieve our goals. We as a society love to think that a person may become successful and that we all have the same opportunities and chance of succeeding if we just work hard enough. According to Malcom Gladwell, the author of the book Outlier’s these common beliefs are incorrect and are not the means of a person becoming successful. The main theme throughout Gladwell’s Outlier’s is that successful

On the graph above you can see that both the quadratic and the line are both adequate representations of the data collected by gold medalists for the men’s high jumps in the Olympics. Both of these lines follow the plots made on the original graph and they don’t stray too far from those lines either. There only outlier for the quadratic seem to be the medalist from the 1948 Olympics because his height is far below the quadratic. There might be some problems with the exact position of where the quadratic is and where the line is because they were drawn by hand and not on the computer like the stat plots which could potentially cause problems for interpreting the data.

Student Tutor Class Date Barack Obama as an "Outlier" Barack Obama has attracted immense attention from the basic way he conducts his affairs in the Oval Office and from his past life experiences. Nevertheless, there have been debates as to whether Obama is really an “Outlier” or not. For this purpose, this paper examines how Obama is perceived as an “Outlier.” This examination involves looking into the challenges he faced as he grew up and the aspects of his life and the surrounding that helped him succeed in life.

I started with an analysis of the Episode Ratings for Modern Family (ignoring seasons). For the 168 episodes of Modern Family the average rating was ȳ=8.0304 stars out of 10, with a standard deviation of 휎=0.3469 stars. The minimum rating received by an episode is 7.3 stars out of 10 and the maximum rating is 9.5 stars out of 10. By using the median, any outliers in the data can be excluded, the median rating was 8 stars out of 10. Quartile 3 was 8.2 stars out of 10, while quartile 1 was 7.8 stars out of 10, resulting

A statistical chart was created to analyze novels read my students in a 12th grade Literature class. There were a total of four classes and the teachers of the literature classes were Dr. Adhanom, Ms, Zadnichek, SGT Kulokowski, and Mr. Radoslovich. Each Literature class had a wide variation of students per class ranging anywhere from ten to forty-five students. The point of the statistical model was to show the teacher’s name of the 12th grade Literature class, the number of students in the class, the total novels that were read, and the average of novels that were read per student. Thus, the statistical chart allows people to see what class read the most and least amount of books. In addition, the chart shows an average of books read per students.

What is philosophy? Philosophy could be defined in many ways, but I believe that the Oxford dictionary defines it best: “The study of the theoretical basis of a particular branch of knowledge or experience or a theory or attitude that acts as a guiding principle for behaviour”. That definition basically encapsulates the entirety of what we have discussed during the time that we have been in this course. It covers the basic ideals of both eastern and western philosophy quite eloquently over the span of just one sentence. However, philosophy is a word that cannot be defined in simply one sentence. Nor is it a word that can be defined broadly to apply to a wide range of people. When it comes to philosophy, everyone has their own ways of studying and practicing, whether they understand and acknowledge that or not. While it may seem rudimentary to state something so simple and synonymous with the phrase “everyone is different”, I have found that in something such as philosophy the smallest of differences can produce the largest of results. This was a profound truth that became very evident to me while we studied the literary works of many different philosophers. While there are similarities between the approaches of Descartes and Confucianism to philosophy, there are also many key differences in culture, politics and language that set the two apart from one another.