i just used it because I find visuals helpful. Of course, unique/diverse/free-spirited individual people dont fall perfectly into a graph, chart, excel spreadsheet, distribution, etc--but the visual helps us distill big ideas.
It's up to the reader to take away from it what they will
i just used it because I find visuals helpful. Of course, unique/diverse/free-spirited individual people dont fall perfectly into a graph, chart, excel spreadsheet, distribution, etc--but the visual helps us distill big ideas.
It's up to the reader to take away from it what they will
I understand your purpose. My thoughts or questions about the bell-shaped curve as a model or visual. Does it create a form of confirmation bias or sort of self fulfilling prophecy. The academics or experts in statistics and data will say they allow for that. Will they admit to not knowing all the variables. The bell shaped curve was conceived from totally independent random coin flips. In a sense it eliminated "connection" and "variables", Where in G_d's universe does that exist? Was it Twain who said "it's not what we don't know that gets us. Rather it is what we think we know that is not true" Sorry for the misquote. You get the idea? I, do so appreciate your efforts and insights.
Hi Bruce, good questions. I'll try my best to respond based on what I think your overall message is, but please know that this is merely my opinion.
Re: self-fulfilling prophecy and confirmation bias, I think these are individual issues and they could, in theory, happen following any stated idea. Should we stop putting ideas out there because someone chooses to look at them in a way that confirm some bias they have or use it in a self-fulfilling prophetic way? I don't think so.
Now, re: the bell curve, this is merely a visualization to help support an idea. As you can see, there's no data points or units of measurement on it. When stating any supporting idea and showing a visual, a reader could hyperfixate on one small bit of information and make it come true in their own life (SFP) or they could use it to confirm their biases, but that's not the point of the idea as a whole. The point is that we shouldn't base kids' intelligence off of comparison and uniformity and that the measure we use for intelligence is flawed.
If someone were to use the bell curve graphic (which was merely a supportive visual) to fulfill some prophecy or confirm some bias they have, it seems like they missed the point. They're too busy looking at one tree and are missing the forest. There's always the potential for that in any writing because people will get out of it what they're looking for (as Stephen King says, no two people read the same book); but that wont keep me from putting ideas (and visuals) out there.
Does this answer the question? Hope Im not overlooking something.
i just used it because I find visuals helpful. Of course, unique/diverse/free-spirited individual people dont fall perfectly into a graph, chart, excel spreadsheet, distribution, etc--but the visual helps us distill big ideas.
It's up to the reader to take away from it what they will
I understand your purpose. My thoughts or questions about the bell-shaped curve as a model or visual. Does it create a form of confirmation bias or sort of self fulfilling prophecy. The academics or experts in statistics and data will say they allow for that. Will they admit to not knowing all the variables. The bell shaped curve was conceived from totally independent random coin flips. In a sense it eliminated "connection" and "variables", Where in G_d's universe does that exist? Was it Twain who said "it's not what we don't know that gets us. Rather it is what we think we know that is not true" Sorry for the misquote. You get the idea? I, do so appreciate your efforts and insights.
Hi Bruce, good questions. I'll try my best to respond based on what I think your overall message is, but please know that this is merely my opinion.
Re: self-fulfilling prophecy and confirmation bias, I think these are individual issues and they could, in theory, happen following any stated idea. Should we stop putting ideas out there because someone chooses to look at them in a way that confirm some bias they have or use it in a self-fulfilling prophetic way? I don't think so.
Now, re: the bell curve, this is merely a visualization to help support an idea. As you can see, there's no data points or units of measurement on it. When stating any supporting idea and showing a visual, a reader could hyperfixate on one small bit of information and make it come true in their own life (SFP) or they could use it to confirm their biases, but that's not the point of the idea as a whole. The point is that we shouldn't base kids' intelligence off of comparison and uniformity and that the measure we use for intelligence is flawed.
If someone were to use the bell curve graphic (which was merely a supportive visual) to fulfill some prophecy or confirm some bias they have, it seems like they missed the point. They're too busy looking at one tree and are missing the forest. There's always the potential for that in any writing because people will get out of it what they're looking for (as Stephen King says, no two people read the same book); but that wont keep me from putting ideas (and visuals) out there.
Does this answer the question? Hope Im not overlooking something.
Isn't the Bell Shape Curve a depiction of the bias itself?