Week 4: Beyond Belief (post 10)

In this beyond belief session number seven, Mahzarin Banaji studies race gender and people. She goes onto talk about her religion that she was born into in which she stopped believing in at the age of eight and by the age of 12 she had written her first essay. She is a social scientist and studies all humans and how they perceive religion and what they see in it. She starts talking about how there are two categories and which one we believe most people believe that is the highest killer among the two, which one was between tornado's and lightening and she said between the two most people die from lightning. Another group was between homicides and diabetes and the highest between the two was diabetes.

This was interesting because she was pointing out the errors in which we may perceive car accidents to be a higher risk of dying than abdominal cancer in which it is reversed. She talks about outside influences in creating these errors that we make because she was giving an example of someone asking you to give you the last four digits of your SS# and then to name the number of doctors in NYC. The first answer will always have an influence on you giving the answer for the second answer. There are so many studies that are done in helping study and find out why people do make these errors and why, and how there is a relationship involved in creating the answers.