Blog 24

Asking the opinions of someone about an unknown subject creates misleading conclusions for others attempting to learn about the subject. For example, initially learning about which politician to vote for becomes confusing when viewing each side’s commercials. These commercials are simply full of criticism towards the other side. The instant response after watching one of these commercials would be to dislike the side being condemned. This is misleading because one politician is manipulating the views of the other politician so the audience will agree with him. Educating a group of people, THEN creating a survey to capture their opinions is a better way to obtain credible opinions. The group of people shown in the sixth episode of Dollhouse represent the uneducated group. They are uninformed about anything to do with the Dollhouse. In contrast of this group, a survey was conducted about the idea of “Designer Babies”. This idea was captured before and after the participants were educated on the subject. The group of participants were educated about the subject so that the researchers could obtain reliable results. This real world example is showing a group of educated participants whose results ended up with different outcomes after they were educated on the subject. The differences between the interviews within the episode and the conducted experiment can be analyzed to show how credibility changes with education. This credibility has an importance towards the future checks-and-balances dealing with scientific developments. If ignorance prevails into the future, science will have deal with more halts and problems. Understanding of the pros and cons will assist with avoiding this problem.