I found the bias quiz to be interesting, in both positive and negative ways. The questions and phrases asked about certain ethnic groups and Presidential candidates gave me a moment to really consider my honest response. And to not simply answer a certain way that I knew would sound acceptable. My result was that I had a preference to put "Vote FOR" with Democratic candidates and "Vote AGAINST" with Donald Trump, which is accurate. I also tested with a preference for Arab Muslims over Other People. However, I thought that parts of the test were created to trip you up, so I felt that the fast quizzes would mess up your brain. I made a couple of mistakes, but had to stop the quiz because it was frustrating me. I think that someone's results won't be 100% correct due to the time limit. None the less, I think this is something interesting to at least try a bit of to test what your knowledge is.
While reading some of the monuments pieces I felt as if each of them had something that they needed to prove. For example, for the Tate piece felt the need to expose what history has done to people. Each level exposed how much each person was taken advantage of in service of someone else. For the rumors of war piece exposed the whole idealism of the past resurrecting a past historical leader to make sure that the event does not happen again. The Bracero monument exposed all of the work that the people of that time had done in order to make sure that not another person is taken advantage of again. But truth be told, all of these monuments have come with some sort of backlash. The bracero monument had gotten criticism for stating that the braceros were free to do what they wished. From what the article had stated that was not the truth. It was merely one persons interpretation of what a bracero was, b...
Emmanuel Bradshaw- Bias response- week 3
ReplyDeleteDuring the questions I felt that I had a certain amount of pressure to finish the test in a record time. I also felt as if the system for recording the answers was a bit confusing. This did not make sense for me at the beginning because i could not understand that the other key needed to be pressed in order to prove that the right answer was given. I took the Age test and ended up having no preference. I also took the other test for presidential preference that made it so i as well would "vote for" a democratic nominee rather than someone else. Although not a suprise. Nonetheless its interesting that you can find out someones preferences by using photos.