Mismatch

Here is a video of the New Yorker magazine conference at which Malcolm Gladwell gives a talk drawing on the subject of his upcoming book: the mismatch between what we can objectively measure and skills that we really want and gives a number of examples across a spectrum of job types. Some of this talk is quite humourous. For example, the seven lowest scoring quarterbacks on an intelligence test end up having some of the all-time great quarterbacks. But the NFL gives the test in hopes of spotting a quarterback who can handle the cognitive demands of leading a team on the field.