When those values are practiced, a neighborhood emerges.
I found this idea of a neighborhood interesting. Certain values do not make a community and vice versa. Just because you grow up in a neighborhood like described does not mean you all of a sudden have those values like integrity and compassion and the same is for if you did not grow up in a neighborhood. Where someone comes from does not define them.
yet 25 percent of all of America’s children live in poverty, and 42 percent of young brown brothers and sisters live in poverty, and 51 percent of young black brothers and sisters live in poverty in the richest nation in the history of the world
Hearing these statistics breaks my heart. I think it is hard to hear these numbers and not see that race plays a role in these numbers.
tradition is not something you inherit—if you want it, you must sacrifice for it. In other words, tradition must be fought for. . . .
I agree with this. I think many believe that tradition is something that just happens, when rather it is something that requires work.
but an agent of disinformation slowed down the video
This is something we see everyday in media. With elections and politics it is represented even more, many use these as opportunities to convey their audience of things that never happened and this leads to false information being spread.
Those who spread misinformation—false content shared by a person who does not realize it is false or misleading—are driven by sociopsychological factors.
I think this is something we see a lot. Many do not know how something can be twisted and see right through the false information.
had been forced to run a 9/11 scenario with their technologies before they deployed them commercially.
This quote stuck out to me more than most did. It is interesting because most do not expect something like 9/11 to happen until it does, and if people are not prepared that is when the problems start. I think trial runs should always be put into place.
The ones who saw the wheel stop on 10 guessed 25 percent, on average; the ones who saw the wheel stop on 65 guessed 45 percent. (The correct percentage at the time of the experiment was about 28 percent.)
This is a crazy reality that our minds can be tricked into thinking certain things, we as people need to be aware of these tricks companies and advertising often play on us. I did not know much of these until reading this article.
How will I feel toward the end of my life if my offspring are not taken care of?
I think this is a great point to bring up when discussing investments and money in particular. I feel as most only want to provide for their children and loved ones and sometimes we skip over this when we are young, because we do not see the point in investing right now. As I have learned from my mom who works in finances that small investments now lead to huge profits in the future, if at 22 you start investing over the course of your life the return will be huge.
Present bias shows up not just in experiments, of course, but in the real world.
I think this is something we all tend to forget about. For almost anything most do not understand how it can transition into a real life setting and it is hard for things to not always seem to be just in experiments.
It’s true that studies have found that readers given text on a screen do worse on recall and comprehension tests than readers given the same text on paper.
Like I have previously said I find that I understand something so much more having it physically in my hands. But I never knew that studies have backed this up. I think this may be a problem we face in the future as digital books are becoming more and more common while many times physical books are not chosen.
There’s no question that digital technology presents challenges to the reading brain,
I find this statement so interesting. In todays society there are so many ways to read a book without sitting down and physically reading it. I do think that it takes away some of the knowledge you get from reading the book on paper. For myself I have trouble listening to books or having them digitally. I am interested to see how this will evolve in the years to come and the new challenges we will come across with reading.
To read silently is to free your mind to reflect, to remember, to question and compare.
I agree with this statement. Often when I am reading something I really enjoy it allows me to escape everything else I am focused on and truly dive deep into the reading and think and reflect without distractions.
The trouble is that it’s impossible to know in advance of a battle which side will prevail
This stood out to me because leading up to anything political you often hear things like "oh blank is going to win" or "this side has the votes to win" it is constantly a battle between two sides and that is what divides our country. While no one can say for certain who will win, everyone needs to make the best decision in their opinion with the knowledge we have.
Brennan suggests that since voters in an epistocracy would be more enlightened about crime and policing, “excluding the bottom 80 percent of white voters from voting might be just what poor blacks need.”
This quote is one that made me stop reading and really think. We have come such a long ways in voting and giving everyone the right to vote. At one time women were not allowed to vote and those things have since changed. By turning back and excluding people not would only be putting a stop to equal opportunities for all. We should never go back in history but instead continue to make advances that help all feel counted for and that their voice is being heard by being able to vote.
About as many are incapable of naming even one of the three branches of the United States government. Fewer than a quarter know who their senators are, and only half are aware that their state has two of them.
This does not surprise me in the slightest but it is also very concerning to me. We are giving people power to vote on things they do not even understand or care to understand. It is difficult to find knowledge on politics without it being one sided. But the basics should be more of a priority to teach our future generations. This is will lead to informed voters who want the chance to learn and vote on things they understand and are passionate about.