Claim: Language use in data collection can lead to bias. Loftus and Palmer – There was a study conducted to observe this effect. The premise was that three sets of people watched a car crash video, with one group being a control and asked how fast the car was going. Then another group which was […]
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ToK – Moral Arguments
I was tasked to complete a little survey comprised of 13 moral situations in which I was supposed to give my instinctual intuition on what would be the right and wrong things to do. The survey focused around a set of traffic lights with a self-driving car headed towards a crossing and the situation changed […]
ToK – Summary of Mathematics
Math is an interesting subject as it has been used and proven to be a reliable way of understanding, deducing, and inferring the world around us but what is interesting is that the foundations of maths all the way up to the subtopics it encompasses have been doubted for their underlying legitimacy and rigour. One […]
ToK Question
How we ‘know’ and with what ‘certainty’ differs across areas of knowledge. There is a clear divide in how many different areas of knowledge are known and validated. In natural sciences, the clear prerequisite to knowledge is testing and observation. Such as in Physics, the plethora of understandings we have accumulated over history has come […]
IB Choices :: Quality of Knowledge
Of my 6 subjects, they all teach very different knowledge but if I had to rank I would say… 1) Physics HL 2) Economics HL 3) Psychology SL 4) Mathematics HL 5) LangLit SL 6) Ab Spanish To start it’s not to say I don’t believe Spanish isn’t a great source of knowledge and actually […]
Conceptual Understandings
1) Perception is only used through and based on an underlying system of ethics, this underlying ethical archetype has to be grounded in the knowledge that the peers around you share your same reasoning in what is meaningful. However, the reasoning people use is not always universal and is mostly based on the individuals’ beliefs. […]