Top ten list
Here are ten thing that I learned or stories that I read in my book
1. Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm was a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine he has won a national magazine award and was named one of the 100 most influential writers in magazines. Another well-renounced book he wrote was the tipping point: how little things make a big difference. Both of his books have been on the New York Times bestseller list. He was born in England and grew up in Ontario and graduated from the university of Toronto trinity collage with a degree in history. He has also been a reporter for the Washington post and used lots of scientific research to complete this book.
2. The statue that just didn’t look right.
At the Getty museum a while ago a guy brought a statue to them, which was supposed to date back to the 6th century, but it didn’t look right. Nothing was broken off or anything and there wasn’t much damage that would be rare if it really was that old. So with many scientist they ran a variety of tests and all kept pointing back to it actually being that old so they bought it but when it went on display many other people who viewed it said the same thing so they brought it back to where it supposedly came from and some one their said they hoped they hadn’t actually bought it because it was most likely a fake. And with further research they found ways that the statue could have been counter fitted to seen like it was real.
3. Tennis double faults
Vic Brandon is a top world tennis coach and after watching many games he noticed that right before someone double faulted he knew they would. Double faulting is rare among experienced tennis players so Vic started to calculate how accurately he guessed and amazingly enough he was almost always 90 to 100% correct and it didn’t matter if the game was on TV or in person previously recorded or anything. So hoe tried to see if it was a movement they were doing that told him but he couldn’t find anything and that’s because your brain can just process so much information subconsciously with out you even knowing it's happening.
4. Priming people
Priming is a process that has to do with your subconscious affecting your movement without you knowing it. One experiment had to do with tests and before a standard test using all African Americans half was a asked to identify their race and the other half wasn’t the half that wasn’t asked did amazingly better then the other half because when the others were asked about race it put a negative stereo type in their head which made them believe they were worse so they invariantly did worse this was also demonstrated in other tests.
5. Doctors law suits
Their was a study done about doctors and which ones get law suits and the data had nothing to do with how good of a doctor someone was or where they went to collage. It had to do with how their personality came off to people. They averaged time that the doctors talked to the patience and the ones with greater time got sued less and they also looked at a range of emotions that they poses and the ones with worse dominating or uncaring tones got sued.
6. Dorm room observers
Another test they did to demonstrate thin slicing took dorm rooms and had both strangers and close friends evluate a long list of characteristics just by looking at someone’s dorm room. And in most cases they were very accurate. They tried to make the amount of information smaller a d smaller to see how accurate they could get making the slices thinner and thinner.
7. Abby Conant trombone
The audition for the royal opera of turin was held with a screen so you could only hear them, a women Abbie was chosen above all they expected a man and when a woman was chosen they were surprised because the trombone is a masculine instrument but she passes with flying colors all the tests and after a while had became second chair but they refused to make her first because a leader couldn’t be a women so she pressed charges and won and proved though other blind test that she was the best player.
8. Gamblers
When gambling you don’t know what to do you have to guess and hope you guess right so you can win. A test was put out with a blue and red deck the red deck had things that were bad and blue good cards. After a while the gamblers figured it out but even in the beginning they started to back away from the red cards and when fitted with sweat level sensors every time a red card turned the levels spiked. This showed how the gamblers started at the beginning subconsciously processing tons of information with out them knowing it and fitting it to their behavior.
9. Speed dating
Speed dating presents many of the theorems in this book like how instantly you can just like someone or know that they are a good person or at least seem so. Also it demonstrates the locked door of how we don’t know why we know these things. The people speed dating were asked to describe why they chose who they chose but not many could come up with good answers they just liked that person and they didn’t know why and that’s because it was done in their subconscious.
10. How I can use this in my life
I think you can use this information everyday in your life if you want because everything relates to you. If you want you can analyze what you think and apply the theories he talks about. Or you can use his theories and test them in your life to see their accuracy. The most useful thing I think in this book though is how to use what every example test theorem and even the title of the book and that’s the who thing of gut reactions which is what I try to do now.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
outside reading #7 blink
part a
sit·com pg 212
n. Informal
A situation comedy
con·ven·tion pg 243
–noun
1. a meeting or formal assembly, as of representatives or delegates, for discussion of and action on particular matters of common concern.
2. U.S. Politics. a representative party assembly to nominate candidates and adopt platforms and party rules.
3. an agreement, compact, or contract.
4. an international agreement, esp. one dealing with a specific matter, as postal service or copyright.
5. a rule, method, or practice established by usage; custom: the convention of showing north at the top of a map.
6. general agreement or consent; accepted usage, esp. as a standard of procedure.
7. conventionalism.
8. Bridge. any of a variety of established systems or methods of bidding or playing that allows partners to convey certain information about their hands
part b
in the ending of the book they bring up one final example of the whole point of the book. The audition for the royal opera of turin was held with a screen so you could only hear them, a women Abbie was chosen above all they expected a man and when a woman was chosen they were surprised because the trombone is a masculine instrument but she passes with flying colors all the tests and after a while had became second chair but they refused to make her first because a leader couldn’t be a women so she pressed charges and won and proved though other blind test that she was the best player. to me this wasnt the best example in the book butit was a strong one to end on that made you think alot about how sterotypes effect what you think about someone and how much that can effect their life.
sit·com pg 212
n. Informal
A situation comedy
con·ven·tion pg 243
–noun
1. a meeting or formal assembly, as of representatives or delegates, for discussion of and action on particular matters of common concern.
2. U.S. Politics. a representative party assembly to nominate candidates and adopt platforms and party rules.
3. an agreement, compact, or contract.
4. an international agreement, esp. one dealing with a specific matter, as postal service or copyright.
5. a rule, method, or practice established by usage; custom: the convention of showing north at the top of a map.
6. general agreement or consent; accepted usage, esp. as a standard of procedure.
7. conventionalism.
8. Bridge. any of a variety of established systems or methods of bidding or playing that allows partners to convey certain information about their hands
part b
in the ending of the book they bring up one final example of the whole point of the book. The audition for the royal opera of turin was held with a screen so you could only hear them, a women Abbie was chosen above all they expected a man and when a woman was chosen they were surprised because the trombone is a masculine instrument but she passes with flying colors all the tests and after a while had became second chair but they refused to make her first because a leader couldn’t be a women so she pressed charges and won and proved though other blind test that she was the best player. to me this wasnt the best example in the book butit was a strong one to end on that made you think alot about how sterotypes effect what you think about someone and how much that can effect their life.
outside reading #6 blink
part a
psy·cho·an·a·lyze pg 182
–verb (used with object), -lyzed, -lyz·ing.
to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
Also, especially British, psy·cho·an·a·lyse
in·ter·pret [in-tur-prit] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–verb (used with object) pg 193
1. to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
2. to construe or understand in a particular way: to interpret a reply as favorable.
3. to bring out the meaning of (a dramatic work, music, etc.) by performance or execution.
4. to perform or render (a song, role in a play, etc.) according to one's own understanding or sensitivity: The actor interpreted Lear as a weak, pitiful old man.
5. to translate orally.
6. Computers.
a. to transform (a program written in a high-level language) with an interpreter into a sequence of machine actions, one statement at a time, executing each statement immediately before going on to transform the next one.
b. to read (the patterns of holes in punched cards) with an interpreter, printing the interpreted data on the same cards so that they can be read more conveniently by people. Compare interpreter (def. 3).
–verb (used without object)
7. to translate what is said in a foreign language.
8. to explain something; give an explanation
part b
dear author
through out this book you have supported your theorums whith many variouse examples and studys to show how they work and why. i think that is part of why this book is so wonderful and engadging. it engadges you by bringing you in and helping you apply it everything you do and why that happens. i am looking forwart to reading your other book the tipping point i think it will also be quite similar to this one because they are both phycology type books that explan simple things in peoples life. i think it will also give me a different way of looking at desicions cause i am already terrible at making desicions even very small mondan desicions that i must make ever day and i think your book could help. thank you for writing this book it is mesmorising.
allison
psy·cho·an·a·lyze pg 182
–verb (used with object), -lyzed, -lyz·ing.
to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
Also, especially British, psy·cho·an·a·lyse
in·ter·pret [in-tur-prit] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–verb (used with object) pg 193
1. to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
2. to construe or understand in a particular way: to interpret a reply as favorable.
3. to bring out the meaning of (a dramatic work, music, etc.) by performance or execution.
4. to perform or render (a song, role in a play, etc.) according to one's own understanding or sensitivity: The actor interpreted Lear as a weak, pitiful old man.
5. to translate orally.
6. Computers.
a. to transform (a program written in a high-level language) with an interpreter into a sequence of machine actions, one statement at a time, executing each statement immediately before going on to transform the next one.
b. to read (the patterns of holes in punched cards) with an interpreter, printing the interpreted data on the same cards so that they can be read more conveniently by people. Compare interpreter (def. 3).
–verb (used without object)
7. to translate what is said in a foreign language.
8. to explain something; give an explanation
part b
dear author
through out this book you have supported your theorums whith many variouse examples and studys to show how they work and why. i think that is part of why this book is so wonderful and engadging. it engadges you by bringing you in and helping you apply it everything you do and why that happens. i am looking forwart to reading your other book the tipping point i think it will also be quite similar to this one because they are both phycology type books that explan simple things in peoples life. i think it will also give me a different way of looking at desicions cause i am already terrible at making desicions even very small mondan desicions that i must make ever day and i think your book could help. thank you for writing this book it is mesmorising.
allison
Saturday, December 22, 2007
outside reading blog #5
part a
mon·stros·i·ty pg 157
–noun, plural -ties.
1. the state or character of being monstrous.
2. a monster or something monstrous
blos·som pg 168
n.
A flower or cluster of flowers.
The condition or time of flowering: peach trees in blossom.
A period or condition of maximum development. See Synonyms at bloom1.
intr.v. blos·somed, blos·som·ing, blos·soms
To come into flower; bloom.
To develop; flourish: The child blossomed into a b
partb
in tis chapter they used the example of speed dating to demonstrate a theory of thin slicing. Speed dating presents many of the theorems in this book like how instantly you can just like someone or know that they are a good person or at least seem so. Also it demonstrates the locked door of how we don’t know why we know these things. The people speed dating were asked to describe why they chose who they chose but not many could come up with good answers they just liked that person and they didn’t know why and that’s because it was done in their subconscious. this is very relevent i belive to how peopel are atracted to people.
mon·stros·i·ty pg 157
–noun, plural -ties.
1. the state or character of being monstrous.
2. a monster or something monstrous
blos·som pg 168
n.
A flower or cluster of flowers.
The condition or time of flowering: peach trees in blossom.
A period or condition of maximum development. See Synonyms at bloom1.
intr.v. blos·somed, blos·som·ing, blos·soms
To come into flower; bloom.
To develop; flourish: The child blossomed into a b
partb
in tis chapter they used the example of speed dating to demonstrate a theory of thin slicing. Speed dating presents many of the theorems in this book like how instantly you can just like someone or know that they are a good person or at least seem so. Also it demonstrates the locked door of how we don’t know why we know these things. The people speed dating were asked to describe why they chose who they chose but not many could come up with good answers they just liked that person and they didn’t know why and that’s because it was done in their subconscious. this is very relevent i belive to how peopel are atracted to people.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
blog 4
part a
ex·traor·di·nar·y pg 139
–adjective
1. beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular, or established: extraordinary costs.
2. exceptional in character, amount, extent, degree, etc.; noteworthy; remarkable: extraordinary speed; an extraordinary man.
3. (of an official, employee, etc.) outside of or additional to the ordinary staff; having a special, often temporary task or responsibility: minister extraordinary and plenipotentiary
phe·nom·e·non
–noun, plural -na pg 142
1. a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable: to study the phenomena of nature.
2. something that is impressive or extraordinary.
3. a remarkable or exceptional person; prodigy; wonder.
4. Philosophy.
a. an appearance or immediate object of awareness in experience.
b. Kantianism. a thing as it appears to and is constructed by the mind, as distinguished from a noumenon, or thing-in-itself
part b
in this chaper we learned abou thow to minipulate people subcontiously by using somthing called priming.Priming is a process that has to do with your subconscious affecting your movement without you knowing it. One experiment had to do with tests and before a standard test using all African Americans half was a asked to identify their race and the other half wasn’t the half that wasn’t asked did amazingly better then the other half because when the others were asked about race it put a negative stereo type in their head which made them believe they were worse so they invariantly did worse this was also demonstrated in other tests. i really enjoyed this chapter it showed alot about the human brain.
ex·traor·di·nar·y pg 139
–adjective
1. beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular, or established: extraordinary costs.
2. exceptional in character, amount, extent, degree, etc.; noteworthy; remarkable: extraordinary speed; an extraordinary man.
3. (of an official, employee, etc.) outside of or additional to the ordinary staff; having a special, often temporary task or responsibility: minister extraordinary and plenipotentiary
phe·nom·e·non
–noun, plural -na pg 142
1. a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable: to study the phenomena of nature.
2. something that is impressive or extraordinary.
3. a remarkable or exceptional person; prodigy; wonder.
4. Philosophy.
a. an appearance or immediate object of awareness in experience.
b. Kantianism. a thing as it appears to and is constructed by the mind, as distinguished from a noumenon, or thing-in-itself
part b
in this chaper we learned abou thow to minipulate people subcontiously by using somthing called priming.Priming is a process that has to do with your subconscious affecting your movement without you knowing it. One experiment had to do with tests and before a standard test using all African Americans half was a asked to identify their race and the other half wasn’t the half that wasn’t asked did amazingly better then the other half because when the others were asked about race it put a negative stereo type in their head which made them believe they were worse so they invariantly did worse this was also demonstrated in other tests. i really enjoyed this chapter it showed alot about the human brain.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
blog # 3 outside reading
part a
blood pressure pg 110
–noun Physiology.
the pressure of the blood against the inner walls of the blood vessels, varying in different parts of the body during different phases of contraction of the heart and under different conditions of health, exertion, etc. Abbreviation: BP
al·go·rithm pg 95
–noun
a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor
part b
im this chapter we learned about how you dont know why you know things you just do and to show this he used aTennis double faults prediction.Vic Brandon is a top world tennis coach and after watching many games he noticed that right before someone double faulted he knew they would. Double faulting is rare among experienced tennis players so Vic started to calculate how accurately he guessed and amazingly enough he was almost always 90 to 100% correct and it didn’t matter if the game was on TV or in person previously recorded or anything. So hoe tried to see if it was a movement they were doing that told him but he couldn’t find anything and that’s because your brain can just process so much information subconsciously with out you even knowing it's happening
blood pressure pg 110
–noun Physiology.
the pressure of the blood against the inner walls of the blood vessels, varying in different parts of the body during different phases of contraction of the heart and under different conditions of health, exertion, etc. Abbreviation: BP
al·go·rithm pg 95
–noun
a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor
part b
im this chapter we learned about how you dont know why you know things you just do and to show this he used aTennis double faults prediction.Vic Brandon is a top world tennis coach and after watching many games he noticed that right before someone double faulted he knew they would. Double faulting is rare among experienced tennis players so Vic started to calculate how accurately he guessed and amazingly enough he was almost always 90 to 100% correct and it didn’t matter if the game was on TV or in person previously recorded or anything. So hoe tried to see if it was a movement they were doing that told him but he couldn’t find anything and that’s because your brain can just process so much information subconsciously with out you even knowing it's happening
Thursday, November 29, 2007
debate
Lincoln Douglas / policy
Where? In school, tournaments, extra curricular activity
Purpose? To get better at debating, fun, good skills later
Better decision? Not necessarily because its all for school and competition
Structured, so it makes it more clear and concise in the decision-making.
Presidential debates
Where? Various places and televised but for the public
Purpose? Candidates tell people their beliefs and argue so people know who to vote for.
Better decision? I think so because people know more about whom they are voting for and can make good decisions
Structured, so time for each candidate is even and equal so people can make good decisions.
Law cases
Where? Court rooms
Purpose? To settle an argument, put blame somewhere
Better decision? Yes because it's equal and equitable
Structured, so it's easy to follow and same for the same types of things
Family problem
Where? At home with family
Purpose? Come to an agreement
Better decision? Yes because each side has it's chance to share
Unstructured because it's different for everyone but it adapts to people and sittuation
Where? In school, tournaments, extra curricular activity
Purpose? To get better at debating, fun, good skills later
Better decision? Not necessarily because its all for school and competition
Structured, so it makes it more clear and concise in the decision-making.
Presidential debates
Where? Various places and televised but for the public
Purpose? Candidates tell people their beliefs and argue so people know who to vote for.
Better decision? I think so because people know more about whom they are voting for and can make good decisions
Structured, so time for each candidate is even and equal so people can make good decisions.
Law cases
Where? Court rooms
Purpose? To settle an argument, put blame somewhere
Better decision? Yes because it's equal and equitable
Structured, so it's easy to follow and same for the same types of things
Family problem
Where? At home with family
Purpose? Come to an agreement
Better decision? Yes because each side has it's chance to share
Unstructured because it's different for everyone but it adapts to people and sittuation
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