Blog Post Synthesis

Blog Post Synthesis

Daily Question:

In school I ran for judge for Ameritowne. I do believe some people have advantages over other people because in this competition they had to have good public speaking for the speeches we had to do and they had to have crowd appeal so they were popular and people knew who they were and liked them. My claim is that the more popular people will win the school competitions because people like them and people know who they are. My evidence is that in that school competition Adam Koskovich won because his personality was funny and he had good stage presence. Also for Homecoming it is a popularity race more than a good person race. People all know the popular kids and are more likely to vote for them because they know who they are.

                In the “Matthew Effect” Gladwell’s opinion would have been that other people do have advantages based on simple things like when they were born that they can’t even control. Also he would have said that people have to work at something to get it because a poor person can’t just suddenly be rich they have to work at it to get there. Specifically, Hockey players that are born in January have a better chance of getting into the higher leagues because they or older and more mature. I agree with him because the more mature and coordinated you are the better chance you have of being selected.

                This chapter sort of made me rethink it in the way that just based on the month you were born you can already have an advantage. He used a lot of chart to help us see the rosters and how all the players have a lot of key things in common. These were some convincing sources because they were real charts.