I thought that the Methods of Gathering Scientific Evidence helped me start to see what Dr. Bezio mentioned very briefly, the way that statistics can be problematic. There are so many different types of studies and methods of gathering evidence that all come with their different pros and cons. These different methods all show certain information and leave out other information. People that are unaware of the ways that different types of studies fall short could fall into different traps. For example, if people just read a one-sentence summary or a statistic that comes of out of correlational research they might mistake it for causation and take it to mean more than it actually does.<\/p>\n
I thought that the second article gave a pretty good summary of the many different aspects of leadership you look at in 101 and 102. The sections on leadership in large-scale societies reminded me a lot of what we talked about last week with implicit biases. It seems like in small-scale societies they made better decisions about who should be a leader because they did not make as many decisions based on implicit biases. Though leadership in small-scale and large-scale societies has flaws, I feel like the main reason certain groups cannot become leaders in large-scale societies is because of these implicit biases that many people hold. Certain groups do not fit the image of traditional leaders we have had in the past and thus they have more difficulty becoming a leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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