Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Week 3 Post 2
I found the information in chapter five about personal experience to be incredibly important. So often we accept or reject claims because of our own experiences ,that may not have much to do with the actual situation at hand. When we do this we are failing to be objective. I also thought it was interesting that page 85 says, “…we remember what we deduced from our experience, not what we actually experienced.” I believe there are many people that have one negative experience with something (or someone) and assume that all experiences with that thing or person will be negative in the future. While it is important to try to remain objective, it seems that biologically we are wired this way to protect ourselves. If I put my hand on the hot stove and I get burned, I will never put my hand on a hot stove again. But if I have a date with a German, should I never date a German again?
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I thought your response to this chapter was explained very well. Personal experience was a good subject to talk about because its stuff that we go through everyday in life. It was a good idea to take a direct quote from the book and site the page number, so the reader can look in his/her book and have more information about what your talking about. Another thing that you did good on was giving your own experience and say how you felt about the subject. Also giving an example at the end of your response was a good idea, to leave the reader with something to think about.
ReplyDeleteThis was an exellent posting, in my opinion. Our personal experiances' are our best source of information. I did find though that you didn't talk about how sometimes even our personal experiances can be fault because of lack of memory or trauma causing or memories to be blurred. I felt that was an important bit of information that was left excluded from this posting. But overall it was good posting and I would agree with seanlinton2 about the last sentence and how it gave us something to ponder.
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