[jasonwatkinspdx]

Yeah, I think I first heard it in relation to Malcolm Gladwell and it's just so apt at capturing everything wrong with that category of book. I mean he's a skillful writer, and it's definitely entertaining stuff. But if you flip into critical mode and do comparative research vs authoritative sources, you start seeing how vapid it is really fast.

[disgruntledphd2]

When I read Fooled by Randomness I found it useful. Not groundbreaking work, but it drew some nice analogies between statistical distributions and human's over-certainty.