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From Revisionist History: The Relative Age Effect

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Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4968 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

I'm sharing a bonus episode from a podcast I love, Revisionist History. Revisionist History is bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about things misunderstood and overlooked. This season, Malcolm’s obsessed with experiments – natural experiments, scientific experiments, thought experiments. In this episode, Revisionist History explores a category of privilege that’s often ignored: age. He heads to the University of Pennsylvania to examine how this overlooked privilege plays out in the classroom. You can hear more from Revisionist History at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/rhs7?sid=edge. Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wren will plant 10 extra trees in your name! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey listeners or Edge Hogs are some, well particularly on YouTube have been calling themselves,

0:06.5

Andrew here, today we're doing things a bit differently and sharing with you a preview from

0:12.3

another podcast I enjoy.

0:14.5

That's Revisionist History.

0:16.7

You might be familiar with Revisionist History, its best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell's

0:21.2

podcast that re-examins something from the past and asks

0:25.6

whether we got it right the first time. I'm fascinatingly intrigued by the

0:31.4

concept I love this podcast, it's one I listen to. I don't usually

0:34.8

do these sort of dropping other episodes into my feed, but it's Malcolm Gladwell and

0:39.8

I don't know if you're familiar with him but he's a philosopher and writer he's one of my

0:43.8

favorites I've read many of his books I'm a huge fan and when I learned Malcolm wanted to preview

0:48.0

on on the edge with Andrew Gold I was pretty excited now like on the edge with Andrew Gold revisionist history is all about

0:54.4

asking big questions and learning more about fascinating topics. This season

1:00.4

Malcolm's obsessed with experiments, natural experiments, scientific experiments, thought

1:06.7

experiments, and in this preview it's an episode where Malcolm heads to the University

1:12.4

of Pennsylvania to run an experiment on a category of privilege that's often ignored and asks whether his own book outliers might be partly to blame. Lessons are learned and hijinks ensue.

1:27.0

Okay, so here's the episode. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. You can hear more from Revisionist History wherever you get your

1:35.0

podcasts. In the middle of our preparations for season 7 of this your favorite

1:42.3

podcast, the revisionist history team got on a train to

1:46.6

Philadelphia four of us carrying props recording, and extra microphones.

1:54.4

Our destination, the Gothic Ivy-covered cathedral of higher learning

1:59.2

that is the University of Pennsylvania.

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