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TOK Presentation!
To what extent does our experience bring implicit bias in our assumptions? !
- Real life situation : 198 words, 1 min 20 s!
So about one year ago, I’ve heard this story from my friend who had been living in Sweden for 2 years. He is a British born African who holds a
Master’s degree in Architecture from University College London. He is tall and seems strong. He lived with his Swedish girlfriend but he didn’t get any jobs in the first 3 months, later he found a recruitment advertising on newspaper which fits him perfectly. So that he called the contact up. Luckily, he got the chance for a job interview and went there happily a few days after the call. After some time he entered the conference room, by the end the interviewer said something that really shocked my friend. The
“something” was, “ Are you originally from Britain? I mean, how can you have such a great British accent and so good at architecture? No offense, but you seem really tall so I wondered if you are good at athletics. ” Later on, my friend did get the job offer, but he chose not to take it in the end. He explained to me he could apparently imagine how the working circumstance will be if he takes the job offer.!
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180 words 1 min 10 s!
After hearing this story, I found it interesting that such assumption can have a great impact on my friend’s emotion. By reexamining the case, I realized the focus was the doubts and assumptions the interviewer made were obviously wrong and thus disturbed my friend. !
I thought about my own experience and I found I also make similar assumptions as the interviewer did sometimes although I may not speak it out. The reason behind is when we make an assumption, we use our brain to pick up the information related to the person, for instance, we may think about our previous music teacher when we heard we are going to have a new music teacher without even noticing we are trying to draw the image of
TOK Presentation!
To what extent does our experience bring implicit bias in our assumptions? !
- Real life situation : 198 words, 1 min 20 s!
So about one year ago, I’ve heard this story from my friend who had been living in Sweden for 2 years. He is a British born African who holds a
Master’s degree in Architecture from University College London. He is tall and seems strong. He lived with his Swedish girlfriend but he didn’t get any jobs in the first 3 months, later he found a recruitment advertising on newspaper which fits him perfectly. So that he called the contact up. Luckily, he got the chance for a job interview and went there happily a few days after the call. After some time he entered the conference room, by the end the interviewer said something that really shocked my friend. The
“something” was, “ Are you originally from Britain? I mean, how can you have such a great British accent and so good at architecture? No offense, but you seem really tall so I wondered if you are good at athletics. ” Later on, my friend did get the job offer, but he chose not to take it in the end. He explained to me he could apparently imagine how the working circumstance will be if he takes the job offer.!
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15-2-1
Decentralization:
180 words 1 min 10 s!
After hearing this story, I found it interesting that such assumption can have a great impact on my friend’s emotion. By reexamining the case, I realized the focus was the doubts and assumptions the interviewer made were obviously wrong and thus disturbed my friend. !
I thought about my own experience and I found I also make similar assumptions as the interviewer did sometimes although I may not speak it out. The reason behind is when we make an assumption, we use our brain to pick up the information related to the person, for instance, we may think about our previous music teacher when we heard we are going to have a new music teacher without even noticing we are trying to draw the image of