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Summary Of None Of The Above By Malcolm Gladwell

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In Malcolm Gladwell’s “None of the Above” he explains that over time the I.Q. of people is constantly changing somewhat based upon their race. People are getting smarter than their ancestors meaning a higher I.Q. Dependent on the person’s race and family locus will have input on what the person's I.Q. will be. Gladwell informs and persuades people that I.Q.’s defines who a person is and puts a stereotype on individuals like Blacks are not as smart as Causation people for example. People understand that over time the brain in humans has developed substantially with evolution. Gladwell makes the audience feel pitiful by mentioning stereotypes that appeal as pathetic. So is Gladwell trying to explain the I.Q. of individuals or the socio-cultural bias of the society?

Depending on what people believe in will determine whether or not they think it is ethical to conclude people’s intelligence based on a test that is changing so often. Is it right for Gladwell to say “an international I.Q. pyramid, with Asians at the top, European whites next, and Hispanics and blacks at the bottom.” (Gladwell 549)? The prejudice of culture and race is seemingly overriding the thought of ethics in a society. I.Q. testing should not be allowed to be compared with one’s race. If the test is inquiring the mental …show more content…

testing. Gladwell talks about the I.Q. score “raising by 0.3 points per year, or 3 points per decade” (544) for his logical reasoning being “human beings seemed to be getting smarter” (544). He makes it sound like people started out as being stupid but by now people should be near genius. To look back at Albert Einstein, for example, a genius. This goes to show that before this time period there were people with high I.Q. scores. It is rational to say that with time everything matures and evolves just like in Gladwell’s document the human brain

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