Through Nisebett's experiment, I found out that some of the times I think like a Westerner. I read other CB's blogs, and figured out that some of them had the same experience. this was interesting to me and it made me wonder why. Maybe it is because most of the people in CB have lived in Western countries for a long time and the nature made them think like one.
Another way of reasoning this might be that Nisebett's statistics are not accurate enough to determine the difference between how Westerners and Easterners think. I tested Nisebett's experiments on my brother for a try. Although he lived in Western countries as much as I did, he made exactly the opposite answers as mine. I read over his experiments to see how much Nisebett's experiments and conclusions can be trusted. For example on page 142, Nisebett does an example of making Korean, European American and Asian American students classificate a flower among two groups of flowers. He does this to test whether Westerners categorise by applying rules and Easterners categorize based on family resemblance. His conclusion is that his statement is justified because of the experiment, but the average of positive reactions to his statements is too low. Can anyone determine something is A because Ais 67percent correct and B is 33 percent? Or even when A is 60 percent? It can almost be said that the experiment was a failure because it didn't show apparent results.
I have to catch up to chapter 8! still got a long way to go..
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