Post by klaye on Mar 11, 2015 21:26:49 GMT
Week 2: Voodoo Voodoo and Calvino's Shuffle
Drawing from the movie "we are all scientists" describe several incidents in your own life where you thought and acted scientifically. Be sure to detail how your thoughts or actions were scientific.
An incident where I think I acted scientifically is when I am playing water polo. I remember a specific game where my team was playing Chaffey college and I had the ball; in water polo you always have to be thinking two or three steps ahead. So in my head I predicted that if I told my teammate to swim to the goal that in about seven seconds, that would give her enough time to be open, catch the ball, and make a goal. So I held the ball for about five seconds, told my teammate to drive to the goal, and bam....she scored. Another time I acted as a scientist was when I was at a party with my friends and one of my friends said, "I wonder who can spin around the most times and walk seven feet before falling down. So about 10 of us did this little experiment and all of us fell down except for one person.
Using the movie "voodoo voodoo" as your prompt, have you in your life ever used a "magical formula" (from prayers to mantras to chants to childhood rhymes, etc.) to secure what you wanted or to protect yourself, etc? Feel free to tell your recollections in story form. How would you today rationally explain how and why it worked?
My last year playing water polo here at Mt. Sac, I was elected captain of my team. Before each and every game I would have one of my teammates say sprayer while we were all huddled up. The very first game we played, to our surprise, we won! So I thought to myself, being superstitious and what not, decided to make it a ritual. So before every single game we played we would pray the same exact prayer. This worked every game we played except for our championship conference game. We ended up losing by two points to our rivals. However, do I think the prayer helped us get through our season of wins? Yes I do.
Calvino's shuffle is an important metaphor. Why should it be a guiding principle when claiming something for certain? Give examples.
Calvino's shuffle metaphor basically states that everyone has different interpretations of everything in this world and that you cannot jump to conclusions without all of the cards or in scientific terms, until you have all of the evidence supporting your theory. For instance, I can't just randomly conclude that I think cavemen created the Earth because I don't have all of the evidence collected fro support my hypothesis. But once I have enough evidence, I can then say well obviously caveman did not crate planet Earth.
Drawing from the movie "we are all scientists" describe several incidents in your own life where you thought and acted scientifically. Be sure to detail how your thoughts or actions were scientific.
An incident where I think I acted scientifically is when I am playing water polo. I remember a specific game where my team was playing Chaffey college and I had the ball; in water polo you always have to be thinking two or three steps ahead. So in my head I predicted that if I told my teammate to swim to the goal that in about seven seconds, that would give her enough time to be open, catch the ball, and make a goal. So I held the ball for about five seconds, told my teammate to drive to the goal, and bam....she scored. Another time I acted as a scientist was when I was at a party with my friends and one of my friends said, "I wonder who can spin around the most times and walk seven feet before falling down. So about 10 of us did this little experiment and all of us fell down except for one person.
Using the movie "voodoo voodoo" as your prompt, have you in your life ever used a "magical formula" (from prayers to mantras to chants to childhood rhymes, etc.) to secure what you wanted or to protect yourself, etc? Feel free to tell your recollections in story form. How would you today rationally explain how and why it worked?
My last year playing water polo here at Mt. Sac, I was elected captain of my team. Before each and every game I would have one of my teammates say sprayer while we were all huddled up. The very first game we played, to our surprise, we won! So I thought to myself, being superstitious and what not, decided to make it a ritual. So before every single game we played we would pray the same exact prayer. This worked every game we played except for our championship conference game. We ended up losing by two points to our rivals. However, do I think the prayer helped us get through our season of wins? Yes I do.
Calvino's shuffle is an important metaphor. Why should it be a guiding principle when claiming something for certain? Give examples.
Calvino's shuffle metaphor basically states that everyone has different interpretations of everything in this world and that you cannot jump to conclusions without all of the cards or in scientific terms, until you have all of the evidence supporting your theory. For instance, I can't just randomly conclude that I think cavemen created the Earth because I don't have all of the evidence collected fro support my hypothesis. But once I have enough evidence, I can then say well obviously caveman did not crate planet Earth.