Sunday, May 9, 2010

Chap:5 "The Bad Seed" or "The Other Boys Made Him Do It"?

examples on news given in this chapter was very interesting.
chinese news focus on the environment the murderer was in
on the other hand new york times american news focus on ones characteristics.

looking at japanese news
myb because japan is part of asia
the news in japan is mainly based on the environment of a criminal or someone who is in the news.
do you guys remember the killer in akihabara?
myb im talking about somethig different...but
this guy was so alone that he started to post his message on his blogs
he had no friend nor did he had a satisfying job
then he when to kill few people in the town just because he was unsatisfied with his life
its kind of different example from the one in the book but
what i wanted to say was that the news in japan showed about his surroundings a lot
if my memories are still correct.

in avoiding the fundamental attribution error
the example of the college student being asked to show possible donors around the campous for a day and that for this service the student is offered a money
one refuses and other accepts this
then as the book mentions, it seems that it is more likely for the latter students to go blood driving than the former
but the answer they gave were due to the amount of money they would be paid
but still it may look like the latter were t¥likely to go blood driving
i felt that this is like an assumption that we covered in class when writing a essay

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