Stereotypes In Thinking Fast And Slow By Postman

Our System 1 is unreliable, can contribute to rash judgements, oversimplifications, and contribute to a reliance on stereotypes. This system provides answers whether they are based on facts, skills or heuristics. Thus, where these thoughts are based on truth or not we rely on them to make sense of the world around us. Most of the simple tasks and thoughts completed by individuals happen from their System 1. The book, Thinking Fast and Slow, highlights the issues that can arise when we rely on this part of our brain. Oversimplifications and cultural stereotypes occur from thinking and acting without conscious awareness. What we think and how we perceive things may be influenced by things and stimuli we are not even aware of. In class we have
Meaning that the meaning can lay in the medium as much as it does the message. The author explains that there is an appeal for attractiveness. Attractive individuals are more likely to have their words be trusted or accepted. I think to United States media and the use of News Anchors in television. The people that provide us with news are inherently trusted, even though they are not experts in their fields, but because they appear to fit a mold. I have read the author Postman. He posits that television is not a proper medium for important discussions because we care more about cosmetics than ideology. To some extent, I think the author of Thinking Fast and Slow would agree. Who states a message, what they look like, and how that message is told seems to carry equal, or more, weight than the content of that message. Last week’s reading, by Nashmi et al, explains that the United States is the only nation, of those studied, that included Sports and Entertainment as YouTube video news content. This demonstrates that while, nearly, all brains may function similarly each society will have different determinations of what content is important. Untimely, this is one factor as to why values differ among societies. In our society, data, numbers and facts do not sale as much as dramatized content. This correlates to the authors ideas surrounding System 1 and System 2. Looking at pure facts and numbers would require us to utilize our System 2 thought to make sense of the information we are provided. However, compelling narratives remove that step. Rather, we can accept the story we are told as truth. This can contribute to reinforcing dominant perceptions and frames of the