Man is a Measure

7) He means that everything humans try to perceive is an issue and that before we can make sense of them our brain must understand them. In short we can't perceive anything until after our brain understand it.
8) Society makes us believe that natural looking means something, therefore when we see something as the way it is naturally, we are really thinking that is the way society thinks it looks naturally
9). When Bruce saw an actual living rhinoceros and how dissimilar it was from Durer's model, he still made it the same this is because it wasn't how he had always imagined they would look.
11) What you think before you see something, what you have been trained to believe is what you re going to affect your perception of things. This could mean that all studies should be conducted as a double blind study so that the researchers expectancy and researcher bias does not affect the outcome of the study itself. 

deception and truth telling

I think that deception is generally bad but I agree with the statement that sometimes lying is not morally debilitating if no harm is done "white lies". Lying is necessary for the area of knowledge called knowledge by description. When people are describing things to other people or teaching them about it then sometimes deception is necessary. Like the artist who staged the photo to teach people how things would normally look, he was being honest about what he had seen but he was using deception when he said that the photo was accurate. Plus when people describe things that tend to embellish to get a point across which could be another form of deception.

The Basis of Knowledge from Reuben Abel's 1976

8)

1. sense perception-only what is true can be known 
2. logic-one can believe without knowing but one cannot know without believing 
3. intuition-to distinguish knowledge from a lucky guess
4. self-awareness-the evidence of true belief could be destroyed with knowledge 
5. memory-memory is no guarantee of truth 
6. authority-authority is a justification of knowledge
7. consensus gentium  ('everybody says so')-before disregarding the justification of knowledge we must examine the basis of truth
8. revelation-it is a reason of justification that seems unreliable
9. faith-faith is a requisite of knowledge but not  a guarantee of it

1. How did you react to your results?  Were you surprised?  Angry or hurt? Pleased?  Discuss what you felt and why you think you felt what you did. I was not surprised by the results and was actually pleased by them. I had never considered myself a racist but when i was told to take a test i was afraid they would tell me i am. But I'm not so it's all good. I think that i the 21rst century people should have moved past the racism thing and become more concerned with global warming or something. It's already been proven that neither white or black or Hispanic people are genetically superior. 
2. Do you believe that your test results say something about you that you should pay attention to?  Why or why not? I think that they tell me that I am a result of my upbringing and I am a result of what i want to be. I didn't want to be racist so I am not, and I was raised by an open minded family which i hope will help me keep an open mind throughout my life. 
3. Do you think that these tests are valid?  When you first saw your results, did you question or accept the tests' validity? I accepted the tests validity because it was what i predicted the results would be. I think they are as close to valid as it is possible to become because it is really hard to measure or test an emotion. 
4. Give examples of the cultural messages that many support attitudes linking a dominant group in your nation or culture with "good" or "superior" attributes and a subordinate group with "bad" or "inferior" ones. Are these attitudes generalizations that can be called stereotypes?  How can generalizations be distinguished from stereotypes? An example of a racist thing is the media, i feel like most of the heroes and heroines in movies are white Americans. I also think that the media is changing that and african americans are taking the screen more and more which is obviously a good thing because there are a lot of super awesome african american actors and actresses. 
5. If some of our consciously held beliefs, attitudes, and values are undermined by what Gladwell,another writer we'll be reading soon....http://www.gladwell.com/blink/index.html, calls rapid cognition (others call this intuitive thinking or even gut feelings), what do you suggest we can do to combat jumping to (false) conclusions? It would help to enter every situation with an open mind and to practice changing your racist or instinctive thoughts. I don't think there is really anything you can do to control your gut feelings and i think it might be a bad thing to try, instinct help us to stay alive. If you see someone who makes you uncomfortable and is looking at you like they want to eat you, and your gut is telling you to run away... it might be good to just listen to your gut and run. It could be dangerous to ignore our instincts completely.  

Why Tok?

What are the reasons should you, or do you have to, take TOK?
Personally I am taking TOk because since I go to an I.B school and I want to recieve the full I.B diploma it is a requirement of the course to complete the TOK class with a passing grade. I also think it would look good on a ollege applicaton because I AM going to college.
On a more worldly basis I think that TOK can help people across the world understand each other and how we come to think---
TOK can help you understand yourself in reference to the world not just your own dimension. It can helo you know yourself and others as learners.

What every baby knows reflection

It is pretty interesting to learn that over the last thirty years we have learned more about babies and young children than in the entire history of  mankind. The author mentions that babies and young children have fairly complex ideas about the way the world works and they are changing and devoloping and testing these ideas from birth, I'd like to know if these theories change or develope faster due to the ethnicity, environment or upbringing of the child. Or if all childrens mind are programmed with the same theories and eventually change as they are introduced to varying environments. I also want to know how they tesy tested the brain capacity of very young children since it must be hard to get the cooperation of someone who can't comprehend what you are doing or what they should be doing. The example I thought was incredible wass that after being born forty five minutes earlier the new born child could interpret the expressions on a grown mans face and recognize that they too could produce these images onto their own faces. They had never seen a mirror, so how did they know that the man above them was doing something they themselves could do? That is what the scientists are trying to figure out.

What is TOK anyway?

TOK is a class created by the I.B that i have to take if i want to pass this year as a junior and get into a good college... i think. They ask you a lot of impossible questions and laugh when you can't answer it.

One way of knowing and one area of knowledge.

History is the outside area of knowledge I chose.