Week Four: Survey and their correlations

So in class we are starting to move on to a research paper. the research paper has to do with making a hypothesis and testing it with a survey and disscussing the conclusions. In class we read about a similar idea of a person disscussing his results for his survey on music. he made many conclusions that many people did not agree with. it seemed they were based off of stereotypes such as all people that listen to country are republican or that people that like dance and electro are obama supporters. My first reaction was laughter. Stereotypes can be funny and the fact that he included it in his paper was quite comical. Next I felt that it was sortof valid for the most part. In order to save time instead of getting to know every specific person, you can stereotype and if your good at it, most of the time your right. Judgements are just a way to speed up the process of catorgizing and getting to know a person. For the most part they are helpful in my life. i can tell whether or not a stranger is likely to be my next close friend are not with a few quick judgements rather than getting to know his life story. its impossible to get to know every single person and i can easilly sort through so many more people if i stereotype them. now you are probably thinking, "you will be wrong some times and miss out on cool people" i agree and cominsate in 2 ways. by judging i get to meet more people so i can find more cool people that im compatible with even if i miss out on a good one here and there. Also i dont let my judgements affect how i treat a person. I act the same towards all people as much as i can. I dont like the idea of judging and sorting people... it just seems so cold but its sortof required to in society.