This TED talk focused around "Are we in control of our own decisions?" and I really enjoyed this talk because it reminded me of a paper I just wrote for my sociology class.
In the TED talk Dan Ariely talked about his research on how people rational their decision making. Ariely talked about how the things around use can affect the way people decide things, and sometimes we don't even know our answer started off on a bias. I thought an interesting point made was the organ donating countries, and the forms given to each one. The difference between opt-in and opt-out significantly changed the amount of people who signed up for organ donation. How just one word affect thousands of people. Race was also a point Ariely talked about and how people relate race to different physical characteristics. Like Obama everyone considers him Black, even though his is half white. Or Tiger Woods who is more Asian than black, but everyone still refers to him as black. The difference between race, and ethnicity is huge and people tend to mix up the two. By mixing up the two, people make false assumptions about people based on that they believe is race. In my sociology class my paper was about how media affects children's development of self. In my paper I stated that media, specifically social media, pushes impressionable teenagers and young adults to unrealistic ideals. Like on Twitter there are always pictures of fun dates with captions like "relationship goals" but those "goals" aren't a reality. Goals like vacationing together to beautiful beaches, exploring, isn't a reality or option for a middle class citizen. So I think people live with a lot of false ideas, and they're not even know as false, just these ideas get pushed and pushed over and over again, they become norms. I guess after all of that I am saying people don't answer for themselves, and instead they are answering based on how they were socialized when they were younger.
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