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WorksheetsOutliers Chapter 1
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
How is Canadian hockey a "meritocracy"?
Children from wealthy families have the greatest advantage.
Children with athletic siblings have the greatest advantage.
Children are rewarded based on talent.
Children are rewarded based on popularity.
What assumption do people make about the successful?
That they cheat and lie to get ahead.
That individual personal qualities propel some people to the top.
That success is based solely on luck and chance.
That successful people don't ever face any setbacks.
With what do we deeply associate success?
The efforts of the individual.
A decent education.
Chance and luck.
Dishonesty and scheming.
How does the author, Malcolm Gladwell, feel about personal explanations of success?
He agrees with these explanations wholeheartedly.
He is somewhat skeptical.
He feels these explanations don't work.
He thinks the matter needs further investigation.
What conclusion did researchers realize about students birth month and performance on standardized test?
There was no correlation.
The youngest students in a grade performed the best.
The oldest students in a grade performed the best.
Students born during the fall and spring performed better than the students born during the summer and winter.
Define the "Matthew Effect."
Children with Biblical names are better athletes than other children.
Those who are successful are most likely to be given special opportunities that lead to further success.
People who experience success have an obligation to help others who are less fortunate to succeed.
Matthew is the most popular boy's name for children born during the first three months of the year.
What critical opportunity does Gladwell claim hockey players who make it to the professional level have?
They got a big head start that they neither deserved nor earned.
They were born in Canada, where hockey is very popular.
Their parents were hockey fanatics.
They lived on ponds that froze in the winter, allowing them the opportunity to skate.
What suggestion does Gladwell make for how to even the playing field and give more athletes and students an opportunity to succeed?
Give all children access to free hockey lessons and training.
Banish elite leagues and gifted classes until children are in high school.
Group students by height, weight, and strength, not by birth year or age group.
Acknowledge the impact of cut-off dates and set up different leagues and classes that group players or students by birth date.
What negative consequences does Gladwell see as a result of the way we have chosen to think about success?
We reward people who are already talented, and they aren't the ones who need help in the first place.
We put too much value on athletics, and do not recognize other important talents.
We expect people to make it on their own, when no can do it all by themselves.
We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.
A person who has special knowledge or skill in a field, excels in musical technique
virtuoso
fractious
precocious
innate
