When I was growing up on a tiny Island in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, I read and worked on my school assignments during the night in the light of a kerosene lamp; regardless of the low light it provides, I was able to see clearly and worked gratefully. \u00a0After thirty-one years of exposure to all these different kinds of lights, my eyesight began to wear down. I believe if I was reading this book under the light of a kerosene lamp, I would really be struggling. These days driving in unfamiliar places without a GPS (Global Positioning System) would be very difficult because I would assume the remaining alphabets on the street signs. I would be able to make the first couple letters and just assume the rest of the letters (the blurry ones).<\/p>\n
I guess because of resemblance, most of the time other people greeted me with Hola, even Hispanics. Sometimes, I played along until I had no clue whatever they continued to say. Other times when I mention that I am a Pacific Islander, I got asked a lot of questions about surfing. At other jobs, my supervisors\/managers would be talking so slow to me with a crazy gesture; sometimes just for the fun of it, I just looked at them and not saying anything. Of course, my skin is dark, my hair is black, my eyes is brown, and I spoke with an off-key accent; but it doesn\u2019t mean I spoke Spanish, or I surfed, or I do haka, or I understand sign-language It is only the resembles, not the whole picture.<\/p>\n
In reading, \u2018Why We\u2019re Wrong About Nearly Everything,\u2019 it is almost seemed likely to be the case, \u2018misperception\u2019 about how we look at things. We might be able to make out the first, the second or the third, but the remaining is what we perceived it to be; and that so often, we were not right. In the introduction [1]<\/a>, the author (Duffy Bobby) talked about his credentials (education) and his work (the research) to build his argument upon. He then elaborates on what I believe to the main theme of his book when he wrote, \u201cI\u2019ve run hundreds of surveys on public misperceptions\u2014what we call the \u2018Perils of Perception\u2019\u2014investigating a range of social and political issues, from sexual behaviour to personal finance, across a large number of countries. We now have over 100,000 interviews, across forty countries on some questions, allowing us to weigh up our perceptions against reality. This is a unique and fascinating source of data on how we see the world, and why we\u2019re often so wrong about it.\u201d [2]<\/a> So, he said it. \u2018Public Misconceptions or \u2018Perils of Perception.\u2019 From the beginning chapter to chapter 9, he (Duffy) showed the misconceptions that we (human) have in regard to health, sexuality, financial, immigration, politics, etc. However, in the last chapter (chapter 11) [3]<\/a>, he pointed out that our \u2018misconception\u2019 was due to our \u2018delusion.\u2019 But what triggered this \u2018misconceptions?\u2019<\/p>\n Mclemee (October 31, 2019) [4]<\/a> wrote in the review that Duffy attributed \u2018availability heuristic,\u2019 which is a mental shortcut in which the mind gives associations to readily a available bits of information though does not the fit the situation or the full picture, as a contributor to delusion or misconception. While others blamed this on our \u2018inherent biases.\u2019 [5]<\/a> Acton (February 04, 2022) [6]<\/a> in her article, \u201cAre You Aware of Your Biases?\u201d shares the following strategies to avoid biases: (a.) Acknowledge having biases and learn to do better, (b.) Give others room to challenge your assumptions, (c.) Openness to feedback, and (d.) embrace diverse perspectives.<\/p>\n In order to \u2018Get What You See,\u2019 there must be (1.) an awareness of the existence of \u2018Public Misconceptions\u2019 (2.) Misconceptions resulted from \u2018inherent biases\u2019 and (3.) And it could be dealt.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [1]<\/a> Duffy, Bobby. Why We\u2019re Wrong About Nearly Everything: A Theory of Human Misunderstanding (p. 8). Basic Books. Kindle Edition.<\/p>\n [2]<\/a> Ibid<\/p>\n [3]<\/a> Ibid (p. 203).<\/p>\n [4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com<\/a> (Retrieved March 23, 2024).<\/p>\n [5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.powerofpositivity.com<\/a> (Retrieved March 23, 2024)<\/p>\n [6]<\/a>https:\/\/hbr.org<\/a> (Retrieved March 23, 2024)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I was growing up on a tiny Island in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, I read and worked on my school assignments during the night in the light of a kerosene lamp; regardless of the low light it provides, I was able to see clearly and worked gratefully. \u00a0After thirty-one years of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","cohort-dlgp03"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37027,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37026\/revisions\/37027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}