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Counterintuitive Fall 2022 
The rock story was quiet interesting.
-The Yap currency system was based strongly on trust
-Amazing how we are actually somewhat worse off
TIL: That one thing worth 15% affects a grade because 4 things worth 15% balance out with it.
Got it. Today I Learned. Good one. —DSH
Present
Good to know, Benjamin. Next time, holler back with something you found notable.
Feedback session was nice.
Notes on the Coffee filter thing- It’s quite interesting how that works. Maybe it has something to do with the pressure of the water pushing on the filter, which won’t let the air out through the already tiny holes. If not, then I have no idea.
Winter Olympics Topic-It’s crazy how the scoring committee can be so messed up, and are not able to find a good solution.
Agreed and agreed, Benjamin. While there may be no explanation yet for the coffee filter conundrum, the good news about the Olympics is that favoritism is nonexistent among judges in events such as the ski jump, which recruit their judges on the basis of their expertise, not their nationality. Figure skating needs to get its act together.
The Olympic story was intriging. It is interesting to see how the times are changing.
Having worked with and around table saws I understand the risk involved with them. I don’t get why table saw manufactorers didn’t try harder to obtain Gass’s saw stopping technology, especially if it would help in the long run.
It’s weird to think we have a better chance of dieing in the shower than we do from a terrorist attack or natural disaster.
What do I have to do to get you to talk in class, Benjamin? You’re an untapped resource who could offer a lot. Are you stingy or shy? Or am I doing something you don’t approve of? You could do us both a favor by participating.
Got me today, haha.
More on the shy side, definitely not stingy, and definitely not because of you. I’m more of an observer sometimes I think. I’ll work on it.
After analyzing the “harvesting” claim in the lecture today, the whole video on organ donating from inmates seemed a lot more morbid and dark.
I didn’t know there was so many calculations that went in to the list of people waiting for organ donations.
It’s fascinating how we all define something different.
Question: If I change my topic for the final essay, would I have to re-do the assignments that build up to it, like the Summaries and Proposal assignments?
Brain fried after the puppy riddle.
Should I share with you the charts I made for Erik to demonstrate the probabilities?
Thanks for saying so, Erik. Allow me to offer two charts that show the situations the best I can understand and explain them. For the Monty Hall problem, in which the contestant first chooses a door, then gets shown a goat behind another door, then has to decide whether to switch her choice or stick with the original door, there are exactly six possible scenarios, three in which she sticks, and three in which she switches. The patterns look like this:
SHE STICKS WITH HER ORIGINAL DOOR
CAR GOAT GOAT She sticks with 1 and wins.
GOAT CAR GOAT She sticks with 1 and loses.
GOAT GOAT CAR She sticks with 1 and loses.
Odds of winning by sticking: 1 in 3
SHE SWITCHES DOORS AFTER BEING SHOWN A GOAT
CAR GOAT GOAT She abandons Door 1 and loses.
GOAT CAR GOAT She abandons Door 1 and wins.
GOAT GOAT CAR She abandons Door 1 and wins.
Odds of winning by switching doors: 2 in 3.
Now, for the beagles, there are four original possibilities.
BOY BOY
BOY GIRL
GIRL GIRL
GIRL BOY
All four possibilities are in play before we know one of the dogs is a boy. So the odds of either dog being male are 4 in 8, or 1 in 2.
But as soon as we know “at least one” of the dogs is a boy, we’re down to three possibilities:
BOY BOY One is a boy; the “other dog” is a boy
BOY GIRL One is a boy; the “other dog” is a girl
GIRL BOY One is a boy; the “other dog” is a girl
Odds of the “other dog” being a boy? 1 in 3.
Does that do it for you?
The water was much needed, thanks again.
The exercise today was a good one, it is one of the few exercises we have had that involves directly editing another classmate’s work.
I’m not a big fan of the “peer review” process, Benjamin, but I agree with you the results of this exercise have been very helpful for the contributors and their recipients. It’s helped me confirm the value of a specific improvement by enlisting peers in the effort to bring clarity to the openings. —DSH
The second song played right before class started was the intro loading screen song to the video game GTA 5.
Tangerine Dream. Don’t remember the title.
There is no final exam.
Rough ideas from my brain for cause and effect essay:
Loud noises scare dad, so when little billy drops a cup causing a crashing sound, dad freaks out on billy. Now billy may freak out whenever he hears loud noises or when people drop something.
Dad is very rough and violent with his fellow soldiers out at war. Dad is the same way to his family because he sometimes forgets they aren’t his war buddies.
Stuff like that.
Some links found during class for Secondary PTSD
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/026990500413759
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=871049&show=abstract
Close contact to the manifestations, not the symptoms.
Suffer combat like stresses
Sydrome internal, manifestations are something you can see, the manifestations of the syndromes cause the person their own trauma. They’ve never been to war but the father has created it by acting like it is.
Broccoli shoes
It’s amazing that using just visuals we can determine what message a video is trying to portray.
I’ve watched that video a few times now, and every time I watch it I get chills.
Good discussion about what is due when and how its due today in class.
I wonder how many people sitting at home realize the true meaning to some commercials. It’s difficult to catch on to a message such as the one from the Thai commercial when you watch it once and in the comfort of your home.