Malcolm Gladwell Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: b. September 3, 1963
Birthday: September 3
When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement. If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of “smart”?
source: "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, 2005.
topic: Smart, School, Simple, Inner City Schools, Prestigious, Questionnaires, Academic Achievement, Sat Scores, Negative Stereotypes
