Writers often take advantage of the use of statistics and logic as a support to debatable claims. Malcolm Gladwell does not shy from this strategy, as most of the claims he makes, because he is not a scientist, are backed by logical reasoning and statistics from studies done by real scientists and researchers. In the first chapter of David and Goliath, Gladwell explains that underdogs win more than we would think. He uses a calculation done by Ivan Arreguin- Toft, a political scientist that shows that out of all the wars between very large and very small countries throughout the last two hundred years, 71.5 percent of the time, the bigger side wins. Why does Gladwell use this specific calculation to prove his claim that underdogs winning isn’t