The Tipping Point

Where the phrase comes from  ·  Card no. 4029

From physics, then sociology. Researchers in the 1950s used it for the share of arrivals at which a neighborhood changed character, and Malcolm Gladwell's 2000 book carried it into everyday speech.

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