Saturday, May 8, 2010

The Geography of Thought-Ch.5

My eyelids are swelling for no reason and I look like one of those muppets in the Sesame Street:(
And its not curing!! grr

Anyways, the introduction of this chaper was interesting and it pulled me into the story.
It was surprising to know that there are such clear differences in the way American and Chinese journalists analyse the same two cases of murder.
In the experiment that follows, American and Chinese students were asked if the circumstances that surrounded the murderer was different, more chance for him to stop killing existed or not. I agreed to the Chinese side because I also thought the circumstances mattered a lot to his killing.

On page 118, Nisebett explains another experiment about showing a cartoon fish to the three groups of students who have previously seen one of the three different types of pictures. Nisebett concludes this experiment in only two sentences, and his description was vague. I thought this was too short and too rough for a conclusion. Nisebett should have written a little more percisively about the result of the experiment.
Not only concerned to this part, but there seems to be a tendency for Nisebett to conclude important facts in a too concise way.

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