Published in 2013, Drunk Tank Pink feels like an attempt to capitalize on the same popular science wave that brought us Malcolm Gladwell and Freakonomics.  Like the former, Alter summarizes other people’s research for his own conclusions, without giving real credit to the researchers whose work he uses as a jumping off point.  In other sins (that may not be his fault- see my own delay in reading this book, which has collected dust on my shelves since I bought it back in 2013), he […]