![]() Taking our powers of rapid cognition seriously means we have to acknowledge the subtle influences that can alter or undermine or bias the products of our unconscious," Gladwell observes. "We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility. Judging music, like other taste tests, is not that simple. ![]() Thereafter, the number of women musicians hired increased dramatically. Changes introduced by unionized musicians included the use of screens between the committee and the person auditioning. Conductors and concertmasters even believed that, with their eyes closed, they could tell the difference between a male or female at an audition. Here, Malcolm Gladwell discusses the recent revolution in the classical music world which, until thirty years ago, was a world of white men because auditions supported the "fact" that women lacked the strength, lips, lung capacity, and hands to play like men. ![]() ![]() When I attended a concert by the Budapest Symphonic Orchestra last week, I was able to appreciate the performance and the female concertmaster even more, because I had read Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking. ![]()
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