Bernard Gerd Gigerenzer's Deliberate Ignorance

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How would you feel if your thoughts and ideas were ignored? Why are people ignorant of this? Ignorance occurs when there is a lack of knowledge and understanding. Ignorance, often leading to assumptions, can cause poor communication, followed by failing relationships. This essay will compare two short stories that show how ignorance is used against the protagonists.

In “Vices of Inattention,” Kathie Jennie wrote of the ways in which humans help facilitate or do terrible things, that clearly violate their morals, not necessarily by intentionally committing a physical act, but by inattentively allowing it to occur. She then divides the concept of inattentiveness into two categories: systematic self-deception through selective attention and willful ignorance, and that of what she refers to as “simple” inattention resulting from an unmotivated lack of focus. She asserts that we have duties to be attentive to morally significant matters, but as can be evidenced by many real-world examples, we often fall short of those obligations.

Has one ever wondered about what ignorance can do to others’ mind? According to Merriam Webster’s Dictionary, the word “ignorant” means “lacking knowledge”. As shown in Plato’s famed “Allegory of the Cave” and Bisson’s science fiction short story “They’re Made Out of Meat”, the authors portray ignorance when the characters discover knowledge from reality, since they are secluded from the truth. After finding out this new information, these characters are in a sudden state of shock. Then, they choose to neglect these revelations and continue with life, pretending that nothing ever happened.

decide the gender of a baby that are more profoundly disturbing. In a society where

Everyone has ignorance and it will always be present. It is a matter of how knowledge intervenes that judges the outcome. James Madison describes a similar aspect. He mentions knowledge as the power that relieves ignorance and allows people to be their own governors. In Fahrenheit 451, the character of Montag is a great example. He is once an ideal, ignorant citizen, but it all changes once he meets Clarisse, who unlocks a vault full of knowledge to him. Moreover, the crave for knowledge grows and Montag meets Faber who helps reveal the meaning of knowledge, allowing Montag to

Denial and ignorance is a common behavior noted in this book. Many times people do not react to what is going on around them, even though they may have a sense of what is going on. Some individuals may walk away from a scene so they don’t have to get caught up and involved. There are also many stereotypes of people of

Ignoring the Ignorant In the article “Ignoring the Ignorant”, Henry I Miller effectively sheds light to his readers on the serious threat that ignorance poses society when it is allowed to influence public policy. The author makes a strong case that conveys the message that ignorance poses a serious threat to scientific, social and economic development when it is allowed to drive public policy by successfully using rhetorical strategies such as Satire, Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. “People have a right to be ignorant. Just as we can choose to damage our health by overeating, smoking cigarettes, and neglecting to take prescribed medications, we can also choose to remain uninformed on policy issues.”

“Is it a boy or a girl?” is a question that is commonly used in a world where roughly 350,000 babies are born each day. Questions such as the one previously stated are what helps to determine what gender a child would be. “Learning to Be Gendered” by Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet focuses mainly on the factors that potentially influences gender. These factors can include names, colors, voice change and the societal norm of what a boy and girl should be. Eckert’s main argument is that being gendered isn’t something one can to gain based off of physical characteristics but rather on their own and through their interaction with society. Names and clothing are just a small part of the symbolic resources used to support a consistent ongoing

An answer may be found in the Dunning-Kruger effect: the curious phenomenon of “confident idiots” emboldened by their own ignorance, rather than cautioned by it.

Ignorance is like being imprisoned in a cave when you accept things the way they are or to think that you know everything and not wondering

Ignorance is defined as, "Lacking knowledge or awareness in genera; uneducated or unsophisticated." In the novel Animal Farm, George Orwell addresses the topic of ignorance. Orwell illustrates that the social and political oppression of the animals is due to their inability to read, which causes them to believe everything they are told. First of all, the animals' ignorance prevents them from realizing the pigs are taking advantage of them. The pigs constantly manipulate the laws to fit their needs. The narrator says, "...it was certainly true that nothing of the kind existed in writing, the animals were satisfied that they had been mistaken." Because the animals lack the ability to read, they are not able to realize that the rule has been manipulated.

Plato once said that, “Ignorance [is] the root and stem of all evil”. Ignorance is the cause of everything that is wrong and bad in the world since people are unable to see the truth. If people start breaking free from ignorance, mankind will become happier and more transparent. In the short story, “Allegory of The Cave” by Plato and The Matrix by the Wachowskis, they portray the idea that in order to gain enlightenment, one must break free from ignorance; which opens himself to knowledge; this new truth must then be shared with others for the good of mankind.

In the article, “People Who Use Social Media a Lot Are Isolated, Study Says.” Rachel Hosie, states that social media does more to isolate than to unite. Throughout the article, she supports her point saying that the University of Pittsburgh has conducted an experiment and they found out that young people (ages 19-32) who spent two hours or more per day on social networks were twice as likely to feel lonely and isolated than their friends who spent less time on those networks. The thesis to this article is quite simple; Hosie is saying that the amount of time we spend on social networks directly affects the likelihood of feeling lonely, “If you spend over two hours a day on social networks, your chances of feeling socially isolated are twice

There is also the surprise of finding out the gender at time of birth. Not only are the parents delighted in the surprise at the moment of birth, but they’re just plain grateful that they’ve been blessed with a healthy child. By being able to determine gender, according to Freeman, we’re cheapening this, and making childbirth into a mere consumer choice. In the end, children are a gift, a gift of nature.