REASON

Today in our TOK lecture we talked about reason. In this we talk about inductive reasoning and how we use it in our daily life. They explained inductive reasoning as what we actually see. Specific instances to a general conclusion. With inductive reasoning you can't never active absolute certainty since generalization is always made from the observed to the unobserved, this causes stereotypes. This made me think a lot in all the stereotypes we make everyday with out even considering that maybe we are wrong. A good example of this is when we are in a class at school learning new things, everybody might seem paying attention and concentrated, the teacher might even ask questions to some of the students to see if their getting it but not to all of the, if they get the questions right  the teacher would assume that everybody understands the topic that is being discuss. Finally he would put a test or quiz to the students and can easily found out that he was wrong, because a third of the class failed the quiz. Seeing that part of the class got it the teacher assumed that all the students understood the topic when in reality it wasn't like that. Creating stereotypes we can hurt people with out even noticing it, we might say someone is really fat because he eats a lot and maybe they just have a disease and by not knowing it and making assumptions with our inductive reasoning we might be hurting them. We have to learn how to control our reasoning because if we don't learn how to handle our reasoning we can make lots of mistakes that will get us to some uncomfortable moments.

Here we have a video that shows how sometimes we assume things just because we see them from a different perspective, and this can bring troubles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3h-T3KQNxU&feature=related

"This is just the latest in a whole raft of research showing how we can be manipulated into believing that we have control over chance outcomes, simply by presenting information differently, or giving cues which imply that skill had a role to play."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/03/bad-science-manipulate-mind-causality