- Who does the speaker identify as her audience? Does the speaker know her audience? Who is her audience (is she right, or is she wrong?)? Feel free to look up the audience.
- What is the purpose of this video (i.e. entertainment, self-expression, explanation, and/or persuasion). Is she successful in her delivery and explanation? If so, how does the speaker's knowledge of her audience help her to deliver her message about wrongness? If not, why?
- What is the Occasion (in Inquiry, they call it Situation)?
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2. The purpose of the video is explanation. Schulz is successful in her delivery because she seems to know a lot about being wrong. She says she spent five years thinking about this. Her audience is a bunch of smart people, so they can probably relate to her message, and to thinking about things for a long time. She has a lot of real life examples and uses personal experience as her evidence, which is convincing.
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How do you know her data is correct or that she has legitimate evidence that would convince really smart people? Read this book review on Schulz: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/books/11book.html?_r=0. Do you think that her ideas might be more appealing because they are accessible and not overly scientific?
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The audience is human beings. Schulz knows her audience as she is human herself. I believe her audience to be business people and feel she is right about how people interpret being wrong. This video has a bit of entertainment but was meant for explanation. I feel she is successful in her explanation and delivery by associating examples of common occurrences that we have all experienced and using those to support her statements. The occasion is a conference about how people interpret being wrong.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your opening statement but feel its a bit underrated - look at the link here http://www.ted.com/ and understand what TED is and stands for. With this understanding that the attendees are the best we have to offer from the fields of Technology, Entertainment and Design since 1984 and have made this free for all to access. http://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_on_being_wrong.html
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ReplyDeleteThe audience is mankind. She trys to relate to human beings herself. As humans we all make mistakes and misiterept things.The video was entertaining and she might have made sense to a few people because humans interpret things differently. The occasion is how people understand things or interpret being wrong.
ReplyDeleteWhich human being is she gearing more towards exactly? http://blog.ted.com/2011/04/19/on-being-wrong-kathryn-schulz-on-ted-com/ Do think she really is talking to everyone Or is it a certain group of human beings she is getting a point across to.
DeleteThe audience is people. She manly was gearing it towards people misinterpreting being wrong. A lot of people can relate to the point she was getting across. We all human and sometimes we are not always right. She gave really good examples that many people can relate to on a personal level like the roadrunner. She even talked about her own personal experience with the picnic sign and being wrong herself. The occasion is how people can misconstrue being wrong and understanding why.
ReplyDeleteKathryn Schulz’s purpose in the video is to explain to her conference audience why it’s ok to be wrong. She convincingly argues that there is a problem with the way people think about being wrong. How we were raised thinking that being wrong is a fallacy within are self’s. Her knowledge that everyone in the audience has been wrong before helps her relate her mistake to them. I agree with Schilz that to err is human and sometimes we only learn are most important lessons by making important mistakes. However she says how we can get stuck in thinking we are right and trusting to much in the feeling of correctness can be dangerous. I have learned to trust in my confidence for a reason. And this reason is because nearly all of the time this confidence is justified. So I will disagree with Schulz on this matter and say that we should not lose vigilance in are confidence.
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DeleteMatt, I understand what you are saying, however when she used the example about the doctor operating on his patient leg . Was it the doctor confidence that cause him to operate on the wrong leg or just a mistake? What would your counterargument be about his confidence? I looked at a site called, “How to Argue with Someone Who Thinks They Are Always Right. Take a look at that and reply back. " http://lifehacker.com/5967432/how-to-react-when-someone-says-youre-wrong-but-you-know-youre-right
DeleteKathryn Shulz’s audience is people who are interested on learning new ideas and concepts. She may not know her audience personally, but this is a conventional type atmosphere and everyone there shares the same purpose. Her purpose with this is to persuade her audience to be okay with saying they are wrong by using some entertainment, self-expression, and explanation. Being wrong should not be looked down on as such a hard notion because not everyone can be right 100% of the time. Even though majority of people hate to admit they are wrong. She told stories to where she herself has been wrong which can help the audience better relate to her. She used some humor in doing so. The occasion is how we are all human, not all perfect and it is ok to admit to being wrong.
ReplyDeleteI really like how you explained your interpretation of the video. I did find some quotes from the video clip that go into depth of the certain topics that she talked about. It kind of backs up what you said, and also adds more depth to the statements, and ideas that you pulled out of the movie.
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Do you think Schulz evidence is legitimate? or sufficient? This link explains more detail about the video.
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Kathryn Schulz , an American journalist and writer was given and 18 minute time slot to speak about her book, " Being Wrong : Adventures in Margin of Error " at the TED conference to the " worlds most fascinating thinkers and doers" - consisting of the brightest and best the world has to offer in the fields of, Technology, Entertainment, and Design. The purpose of her summary was to get her listeners to re-evaluate their view on what it is to be wrong and the association that being wrong makes you bad. Ms. Schulz does a great job using personnel experience, visual aids and nostalgic association to relate to her audience regardless of age, race etc. to show how we are conditioned and must be retaught in order to change. Ms. Schulz uses humor mixed with harsh fact to make her points hit home and causes the listener to pay more attention even if by fear of association. She then envokes the listener to step out of there individual safe zone and understand that being wrong does not make you a bad person. Ms. Schulz occasion came from a 5 yr self discovery she did in order to understand "Being Wrong" and put it to paper in order to help others see wrong in a new light.
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DeleteDo you think that Schulz information is accurate? Schulz herself admits she can be wrong. Schulz draws on case studies from history, politics, anthropology, psychology, and neuroscience and to supports her arguments she quotes from poets and philosophers. She is an expert in journalism, and though her book is clever, dose she possess the intellect of a neuroscientist?
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I agree with your take on the video. After watching the link I get a better understanding why Schulz gave her speech and who her audience is. At first I picked persuasion because of Schulz delivery not really knowing her audience. Now I pick educational, because I know her audience, and her examples Schulz gave of educated people making quick judgments.
DeleteThe audience she speaks of is the entire human race. Her purpose for this whole presentation is to explain. She thoroughly explains the logistics of being wrong and how we as humans misinterpret signs of being wrong and think of it as a bad thing. As humans, we strive to be perfect, which is the wrong way to think. She explains to teach and inform us that it's ok to be wrong and sometimes it opens other doors we would've never seen how we not stepped outside the box. This speech is meant to transform our ways of thinking, and our relationships. She delivers it well with her examples towards the audience and asking them questions on how they'd feel about the topic of being wrong. For example,The three assumptions was a comedic way of looking at the bigger picture because we can all agree that we've all thought someone was just dumb/ignorant when they chose not to be open minded or listen to whats being taught. To me, that helped me connect with her as the speaker and caused me to think more of where she was coming from. The occasion to this is to help others see the world in a different light, to evoke change within and have the audience leaving a more informed and enlightened.
ReplyDelete1.) I believe Schulz audience is her peers/the human race. I agree with what Schulz says about wrongness.
ReplyDelete2.)I believe the purpose of the video is to explain as well as entertain her audience. She is explaining we are all human and make mistakes, but she also entertains her audience by throwing in some humor. I believe Schulz is very knowledgable of her audience. No one likes to admit they are wrong it is in our nature to always be right.
3.) The occasion is we are all human and it is in our nature never to admit when we are wrong. She implies that we should take responsibility and admit when we are wrong. Schulz implies that it is okay to be wrong.
I do believe that most of us here have the main gist of the video. So trying to find an argument is difficult for me. I found this website which details a little more on Schulz interesting http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/15/schulz.admitting.wrong/.
DeleteSchulz addresses people in general. She gives her aspect of people ability to misinterpreting things. Her delivery is persuasion because she gives examples of quick decisions, and not thinking things through. Her speech makes you want to evaluate your options, instead of fast judgment. The situation is people misunderstanding, and not investigating the problem, and admit to being wrong.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this, I agree with what you said. However, when you mentioned her persuasion to the audience. Is kathryns delivery and evidence legitimate? Did it make you believe her with her examples? Here is a quick link that might help you out a bit more. It is all about TED and what their mission is, after you read it, think about the question if she did a good job of "spreading ideas". :D
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The audience Kathryn Schulz is speaking to is the human race. Her purpose of this video, or how I assume it to be, is to explain to us that it is ok to be wrong about things and to voice our opinion, but also hear what others have to say. She explains that it is in our human nature to want to be right about things and not to admit when we are wrong, but it is important for us to own up to our mistakes and to admit when we are wrong. this could initially open up new ideas and concepts we were never aware about.
ReplyDeleteI would say her audience is well educated people, e.g. doctors, physiologists, and students in behavioral studies. She knows her audience because she describes them as perfectionists, overachievers, perfect A students and astrophysicists. The purpose of this video is persuasion. The message she sends is that it is all right to admit that sometimes we are wrong. Thinking that one is never wrong can have some negative consequences. She is successful in delivering her message by giving examples her audience can relate to. One example she used was that of a doctor performing surgery on the wrong leg of a patient. According to her, being right and great has been ingrained into our heads from grade school; most of us have been conditioned to believe you cannot be wrong. In this situation, this lady seems to be promoting her book.
ReplyDeleteI agree with all you are saying and yes the example about the Doctor was a great example of people who think they can't be wrong however he did performed surgery on the wrong leg! too confident of himself? maybe
DeleteMs. Shulz feels that her audience are very bright people i.e., CEO’s, teachers, scientist and so on. Shulz may not personally know her audience, however, because of the setting and environment and her background, she believes she is talking to some very educated people. I feel the purpose of this video is not just to persuade educated people to take a look into their life but to also realize that no one is perfect. She's very successful in her delivery, not just because of the applause from the audience but I believe her point was made which is another reason for the applause. And yes her audience helped the delivery of her speech. When you have is a college student giving a lecture to some very educated people about being wrong or not always being right, and have their attention, it makes you more than able to give a very good speech and even persuade these think tanks to see your point. The occasion is about, accepting the possibility that you are not a perfect person regardless of how smart you are and you can be wrong without knowing it.
ReplyDeleteThis came across to me as “which speaker can persuade a audience to believe what they are saying”. When a speaker gives a speech, and it starts with a little humor, it’s there to catch my attention. However, if humor and funny examples are used throughout the speech, I would not think about the collective data behind that speech or the seriousness of their speech. Ms. Schultz showed some cartoon examples with added humor to keep her audience focus. Her data and legitimate evidence I feel were based on her personal experience and that personal experience just might win over an audience that may still be in a humor receptive mode. Some audience stays away from scientific data because it is ever changing. Her ideal would be more appealing; she gets the audience to relate to her emotionally not scientific.
DeleteJess, I was with you up until the promoting the book. I think she wanted to use that platform to respectfully tell very smart people that they are not always right and to just step out of their (right zone) and see that they may not know what's right. She use the Chinese character sign as a illustration. She thought it meant one thing and needed to be corrected. If that took her 2000 mile to find out, what do you think about the people who think they are right most of their life?
ReplyDeleteIn the case of this video I think the audience is number one: the people that she is talking at that conference. Also the audience could be us, the viewer or anyone that watches the video and takes something away from it.
ReplyDeleteThe purpose of this video/presentation is to primarily inform or explanation. She is saying that people sometimes want to have the satisfaction of being right, and they are scared of being wrong is what I took from it. I think that the speaker did a very good job at portraying her view point on what she was talking about. She gave very good examples, one of them being the surgery mix up.
I think the occasion would simply be that people don't know/ or like the way it feels to be wrong and so humans will do anything possible to make sure they are the one in the right at all times.
Thomas, I agree with you. Most of us will avoid being wrong if we can. It's in our nature to want to be right. You should check out this website (TED.com )It explains how it can be wrong to want to be right all the time. If we allow others to show us where we were wrong about something it could initially open up other ideas and concepts we weren't aware about before.
DeleteThe audience is everybody but she highlight to all the brilliant people as she said perfectionists, overachievers, etc.
ReplyDeleteThe purpose is persuasion and some sort of explanation, she did transmit very well and the personal experiences examples support the subject for better understanding, the audience seems to agree with her plus the participation from them.
The Occasion is to make people realize that anybody can being wrong not matter how smart a person can be.
I agree with you on persuasion and explanation being the purpose. Her examples were animated and funny yet still made total sense. Here is a link that I found online. It has some great info and I feel she used "persuasion" as her purpose. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/06/13/the_bright_side_of_wrong/
DeleteI would say her audience is filled with educated people. The speaker knows her audience because she refers to them as "perfectionists & over achievers". Her audience has to be successful people. I actually looked up how much it would cost to go to a TED Conference. There is a $7,500 / a year membership fee.
ReplyDeleteThe purpose of the video is explanation, She explains how we as a human race strive to always be right. The speaker is successful in her delivery and explanation, she uses examples such as, road runner and the coyote, she also reminds us how as a human race we are taught to never be wrong at an early age.
The occasion or situation is that we human beings strive for excellence and over achieve each and every day, and we will make mistakes and it's okay.
I agree with your explanation, but how do we know her data is correct? Maybe some of these people have physiological disorder.
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