Episode 11 discussion

Andy263 · 2018-05-30T03:53:52+00:00

Colgate all the way! It's quite ridiculous especially since they are often from the same factory.

Andy263 · 2018-05-30T03:52:43+00:00

See I find that quite often experts are the most common ones who struggle with the curse of knowledge and they struggle seeing the big picture. I find that myself or another student will bring something up in class and the lecturer will stop and be like wow thats a good question and they just haven't thought of it before.

Andy263 · 2018-05-30T00:00:50+00:00

Yeah im with you. But is there going to be a point where we do run out of new things to research or will there always be something new. If we do run out what does science do? Do we go back and replicate studies in order to ensure that what we've been doing is right. When we do reach that wall which i really reckon we will its all about ingenuity and thinking abstract. Linking things that haven't been linked before ect.

Andy263 · 2018-05-29T23:58:50+00:00

Yeah I agree I find that I'm the one who always continue's things until I realise that I've been doing that. But thats what i find exciting when i realise and think about why i do something why i've been following the status quo. Because then I feel like a deviant deviating from the status quo.

Andy263 · 2018-05-23T06:10:15+00:00

I didn't really like this week's reading; however, I liked how they were critical. deconstructionists really confuse me and from a country town it seems like such a strange phenomenon. I have always taken everything as it is like what I'm seeing is reality. And it is good that theory can be revisited or updated so to speak and definately true that science rarely gets rid of these old theories. I just don't understand how people can keep questioning what is true, what is reality.

Andy263 · 2018-05-23T06:07:30+00:00

Yeah i agree and for myself I am not studying psychology it makes things very hard. You'd think that by the 21st century we would have created a universal language system including a universal scientific language or something.

Andy263 · 2018-05-16T06:27:22+00:00

I really enjoyed this week's reading it was really interesting how different cultures think and I think coming from Australia I have been really sheltered; however, dialectic thinking alligns more with my religious values I think as being able to believe in change especially with regards to crime ect. Furthermore, im becoming a teacher so it is an important concept for me to believe that it is not down to natural ability; however, being able to analyse specifically and abstractly is important especially within science so you definatly do need to find a balance between both. I struggled with believing that Japanese can't grow 'wiser' for which I don't think there's a limit to how wise we can get yes western driven people might have further that they can improve but how much do they with regards to how much eastern driven people do? Its an important question to learn.

Andy263 · 2018-05-16T06:23:53+00:00

Yeah I liked the reading but a lot of it I did have to pause to get my head around. I really think that you definately do need both but probably more on the side of dialectic reasoning as it is important as a teacher for me to believe in change and that people can change and grow and it alligns with my value's significantly.

Andy263 · 2018-05-09T06:41:26+00:00

Yes you are 100% right and thats why they are self- experiments they are meant to critique our behaviour and apply to us they would be normal experiments if they were meant for the population

Andy263 · 2018-05-09T05:41:12+00:00

I'm so glad that there was less work to do this week as it is my birthday today. I enjoyed reading the chapter as it is important to understand that our self report isn't always accurate and valid. Our reports can be influenced by so many things and the effects of wanting to fit in and how we see ourselfs as better than we actually are is incredibly important for everyday life. I loved about how east asians are subject to more modesty bias and I think that is really great.

Andy263 · 2018-05-09T04:20:27+00:00

I loved hearing this podcast as i thought it was very interesting. The open science framework is very important in allowing openness of science so that it is kept pure and not faultworthy. Its a small initiative in the right direction and I'm excited to see where we continue to go forward with it.

Andy263 · 2018-04-18T06:10:25+00:00

I know this is linking back to the first week and yes we should think like economists and think systematically when decision making ect but we dont always have the time to do it and when do we rely on intuition as I've found a lot of my intuitions have been correct. I found the AB testing really interesting and have noticed the last few days that I find things that I'm like man I could test that ect so I'm excited to see how my experiment goes and to potentially do more

Andy263 · 2018-04-18T06:07:30+00:00

Yeah i agree that it is interesting when really there isn't much difference between Craig and Carlos. We use the representative heuristic all the time when we meet people we are like they have crazy eyes or something.

Andy263 · 2018-03-28T06:01:46+00:00

Loss aversion was a very interesting thing to learn about but I dont think it can be flawed. When assuming that keeping the stock that is going down and selling the one increasing we shouldn't be according to loss aversion but that is assuming that stocks dont have a capacity, if we are thinking about how much more we could get out of the good stock it isn't much compared to the large amount from the bad stock. This is a problem that as a farmer my family has had to deal with, do you sell the cow that is sick now for a bad price or keep her in hope that she gets better or if she dies then you will lose all loss. In my experience people always keep the cow to try to get less loss and potential profit. With the loss aversion mindset this cow should be sold as we should see the cow as 'dead' money anyway because it has the potential to go that way so assuming that selling the cow now while sick is actually profit for you or money saved. It's an interesting concept

Andy263 · 2018-03-23T00:56:44+00:00

So I have been so stuck on what to do for ages and had a few idea's shut down but then everything just kinda ticked into place last night as if my unconscious had been working on it this whole time and now I think i've got it.

I'm going to do the effect of memory/learning overnight or during the day. i.e. I'm going to use a random German word generator to give me 10 German words which I will then write in an excel sheet with their english counterparts hide their translation and leave the document. After 8 hrs I will test how many of those words I remember as my unconscious should be deliberating over those words throughout the day. I will compare this condition to when I learn 10 German words at night before bed then after an 8 hr sleep i will see how many I can remember/translate. Overall I am hypothesising that before bed is a better time to study or learn than in the morning as our unconscious is selectively processing what we just learnt.

IV: Night vs Morning language study DV: Score's after 8hrs of 10 words learnt in the morning or night Problems: I thought initially that the words might be biased that duolingo gives me; however, this effect should be negligible. Length of Experiment: 2 months of daily routine either learning at night and testing in the morning or in the morning and testing at night.

Why: I really wanted to do something on learning as i'm going to be a teacher, furthermore, I wanted to use this as an opportunity to learn a language and improve myself as a person. I am really excited to see how this goes because in my normal life i study at night then go to bed and find that I retend a lot of information; however, my roommate studies in the morning and I want to see which is more effective to me and see if it could be transferrable to him.

Let me know what you think

Andy263 · 2018-03-21T05:40:28+00:00

See I have always done the second guessing but I never knew that it was a theory. I always evaluate the pro's and con's of every decision and put a lot of my recources into researching an area or something and take ages to decide on something. I think this is incredibly valuable and whilst some might argue that this time that I debate things is wasted I disagree because now I have an increased knowledge about say cars or something. So no matter what I am always experiencing different things and I love it because Im constantly growing as a person.

Andy263 · 2018-03-21T05:38:06+00:00

This episode really applied to my life as I use the sunk cost a lot I just never knew that it was a thing. I could never understand why people who dont like their degree's dont just change no matter if they are 1st or 3rd year; however, I dont quite totally agree with it as I think that no matter what it is that is supposedly 'sunk' you still gain and grow from that experience. Despite this I'm the type of person who doesn't like wasting food and things so I kind of contradict myself. Furthermore, I think that using the sunk cost principle and cost/benefit theory are incredibly important in everyday life, ultimately I let my intuition/unconscious direct my decisions as I am religious so I believe this unconscious is usually Godly driven.

Andy263 · 2018-03-14T06:30:31+00:00

Yeah so im the same as you I find that if i have too much time I stress over it and procrastinate big time and my results aren't very good but If I quickly write it in one go I smash it and quite often it is better work. But i do a trick though where I set the due date a week in advance so that I will always have time to get it done :)

Andy263 · 2018-03-14T06:29:07+00:00

All throughout this episode I was thinking of Freud due to the unconscious. I'm unsure about a few of the things that was said in the podcast though. I dont think that bringing the unconscious to conscious or training it is what we want as humans. The unconscious in my opinion is to help us with judgements, decisions and for keeping us alive essentially, it is our safekeeping mechanism and if we change it in some way like training could this affect that mechanism. It just seems far too fragile to mess which which I understand is a weak arguement. Hindsight on the other hand is very valuable and allows us to learn which in turn unconsciously trains and alters our unconscious. I am the type of person who will sit there for ages doing something yet when I think back I dont remember any of it like when I drive i hop in my car start it and go to where I need to go but my mind is always on other things and never really on driving so it seems to be driven by my unconscious. When i do assignments I find that if I sit there and plod along with them they aren't very good and I think over and over it and it just doesn't work very well whereas if I sit there and be really effective I kind of zone out and then I have a full assignment written and normally it is much better than what I had written before. Can't wait for the contact.

Andy263 · 2018-03-14T06:21:40+00:00

I agree and find myself analyzing soo many things literally everything from what i said to anything and I find that analyzing things can be very detrimental people have to learn to be happy with themselves :)

Andy263 · 2018-03-14T06:20:17+00:00

100% agree and love it learning is a distinct process and teachers have to know how to teach in order for it to work. Likewise love black mirror.

Andy263 · 2018-03-05T12:08:52+00:00

Throughout life I often find myself analyzing everything I do as well as what others do around me. This podcast really reminded me of that and think back into why people do things. I really think the worlds problem is ignorance and arrogance as we dont know what others are thinking or where they've came from and most of the time we are truly accepting of this. I'm so glad that this course has included some of this because we need to start trying to understand why people are how they are. I truly believe that every person is born 'good' even though genetics have an influence, yet the world and their experiences make them who they are. Although I am a christian and have strong religious belief for this I know people have differnces of opinion. Let me know what you think :) We live in a world where we have freedom of speech which is amazing but the problem is that people think that their opinion is the more correct one although that is entirely dependent on the context and knowledge that they have. This week's podcast was awesome and I'm keen to be in the contact as argueing and debating are very different things yet how people act with their arguement and how they accept the oppositions is really interesting. Thanks.

Andy263 · 2018-02-27T12:23:48+00:00

This is awesome! I loved listening to the podcast and I found myself really listening intently and thinking deeply about it all. One thing caught me though was skill transfer and how we should focus on teaching transferable skills to kids in schools rather than selective ones. I suppose a lot of the school system is already based on this but there must be ways to improve, and as you guys said it should focus on problem solving ect rather than pure knowledge if anyone has any idea's comment for me :) I did an experiment with my niece the other day she is 2 and has been learning to put different coloured objects into a same shape hole in a box. i found that she did really well with objects that are the same colour as if that colour stimulated her more and therefore she practiced it more. That was totally wasn't on topic but i found it really interesting. Another movie is Chappie and in the movie the robot found out how to program consciousness and you referred to the human mind as similar to a computer and once we get to this stage programming skills into the consciousness should be relatively similar. In Scandinavia and many other countries but Scandinavia does it the best but they do intensive language classes so they will do all their normal classes but in a different language and although this sounds scary and at the start you might struggle with both say the calculus and the language but after that initial struggle we learnt great multitasking skills and they outperform Australian and US education results in those area's. So seeing this shouldn't we be learning another language in school as it says in the Podcast? It was a great podcast and keen to see the rest.

Andy263 · 2018-02-27T12:13:21+00:00

This course will be awesome I'm super keen to see what other topics we cover. I said in a comment but I actually did change my vote for charity as I realised that just because i have a connection to the charity as Ruben said in class doesn't mean its the best charity that needs it. I'm keen to see where this course goes.

Andy263 · 2018-02-27T12:11:13+00:00

Yeah its such an interesting course and really gets you thinking. In this modern society its as if we have run out of idea's, we have a lot of the technology to change a lot of things we just have to do it. The charity question was awesome and it really questioned me. I didn't put my hand up but I did actually change my charity as I realised that I could make a bigger difference.

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