{"id":6266,"date":"2021-03-08T07:21:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T12:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=6266"},"modified":"2021-03-08T07:21:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T12:21:18","slug":"6266","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/03\/08\/6266\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog post 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When reading the Blindspot pages and listening to the podcast, the concept of idea availability stuck out. We are surrounded every day with very similar people and circumstances because being comfortable is where humans, in general, feel the safest and accepted. Over time, different biases are formed because we like to take the easy way out and let society create us. Since we stay in our bubble, we are shown very similar actions and events every day. One part of the reading had us pick if option A or option B was more deadly. I chose B for the first and then A for the next two. The book predicted that I would do that and said it was because the media presents the A options, murder, and car accidents, more frequently than the B options, suicide, and abdominal cancer. If we go back to why people donate, people want to do the greatest good, but what tends to happen is they see different issues on their media outlets and feel a connection to donate. Whereas suicide awareness does not get the media attention, but at the end of the day is more deadly than murder, and we should be giving money to help the people struggling. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When reading the Blindspot pages and listening to the podcast, the concept of idea availability stuck out. We are surrounded every day with very similar people and circumstances because being comfortable is where humans, in general, feel the safest and accepted. Over time, different biases are formed because we like to take the easy way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6268,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266\/revisions\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}