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[sarahlee4]

In english class a couple days ago, Koo did his presentation on the powers of our unconscious mind. He basically explained that his book said that the less knowledge you have on something is better than being loaded with lots of knowledge. I think it has to do with a person's ability to use snap judgements.

What do you guys think about this? Do you agree with Koo's author?

I personally think that we need both. You cant have no knowledge on something whatsoever. You still need that basic information so that your unconscious mind can make snap judgments. Honestly, my snap judgment skills really suck..so I don't know if I can agree with Koo's author.

[alexkoo]

lol thanks. I agree with you Sarah. We need both some knowledge and snap judgement to live our life. As i emphasized during my presentation, people have to acknowledge the power of "unconsciousness", power of thinking without thinking. It might be interesting to test this in your real life. For example, during one of your SAT, you can choose answers by using your snap judgement.
My snap judgement has been very bad though. Whenever i thought of someone as "bad" person, that person turns out to be really nice.

[elijahlee]

I do agree that snap judgment is crucial to living our daily lives. The power of our unconsciousness allows us to make decisions without having to think them through completely, because our mind can skip to conclusions. But, as Koo also addressed in his presentation, sometimes the snap judgment leads us to the wrong conclusions. This is when we have to slow down and think the problem through. So, I guess in essence I agree with Mr. Gladwell because he also talks about the proper time to use and not to use this power of the unconscious.

[sammy576]

I do agree that snap judgement in certain circumstances can be crucial to our survival rather than daily lives. I may sound like an Otaku for saying this, but during wars or in the middle of a battle, snap judgement is what decides the fate of the battle of defeat or victory. Pondering over decisions does bring detements to our daily lives as well, however, I think by jumping to conclusions, we really don't have that clear picture.

[edward08]

I do agree in snap judgements , and i think its part of our survivL skills, i could
Connect this with the "flight or flight" if we are in a situation we have to make
Decision as fast as possible.
Snap judgement decides what u r going to next .
Very important that u have a good judgemnt

[stormy44]

I agree with Gladwell's idea. First impressions always turn out to be reliable. I read the book a little bit myself and the examples the author gave were pretty obvious. We all make snap judgments of not just people but products and movies. Just by looking at the trailer for the first three seconds, we decide if the film is going to be worth watching or not. Doing a lot of research can give us a better understanding of something, but there's something about snap judgments that turn out to be true.

[anica]

Yea I think this whole concept is related to snap judgments, even though I wasn't here for Alex's presentation, but I mean when u make snap judgements on a person, and you look at that person with the wrong idea, such as having bias, then that image lasts forever, but on the other hand, if you don't make spontaneous judgments on a person, then you have a pretty good change of seeing that person as a good one.

[cathysjun]

I agree with you Sarah. I think we need a combination of both for our snap judgement to be accurate. We do need some background knowledge but sometimes I do think having less knowledge may help you. I think this is because with less knowledge and time we instinctively get to the point right away and find the solution. When we have more knowledge I think we tend to think more about the problem and make the problem even more complicated. So I think a combination of both would be the best

[sageda]

I don't think snap judgement is inherently good or bad. It's what we do with it. And same goes to just about anything out there. Also, a buncha knowledge can be overwhelming but that kinda means that you dont know enough. If you in fact were as knowledgeable as you make it out to be, you'd find a away to make sense of all the things in your head without making a mess.

[sang]

I think it's all dependent on the idea of conveniency. As he gives an example of using Snap judgement to dodge a bus if it were to come at u at full speed, I think that one must make an accurate decision to when or when not to use snap judgement. As mentioned, on tests, u must use ur prior knowledge and ur knowledge about the subject matter instead of just snap judgement, so I agree with u sarah.

[davidh]

Well That depends you know. People always have to listen to both sides to understand the topic or argument because listening to one side could be bias and make people to criticize the other side. This is kind of not fair. I think having more knowledge about certain topic is better because people can talk about his or her statement by considering both sides. That way, the statement will not be bias and people will have better conversation.

[jessicak016]

I think that snap judgment is useful when you know the basic information and have repeated it over and over again. And it also depends on the situation. In some situation, snap judgment is useful when you want to find out whether the picture has more men than women and vise versa, like during alex's presentation. However, snap judgment is also based on our prejudices and stereotypes. You could make biased statement using your snap judgment but those statements would be wrong.

[hafizh]

its a really interesting topic that koo had brought to our english class, thinking without thinking. i think our homeroom already discussed this term before, theres one part of our brains called amygdala, and it will decide our action/thought about anything even withouth thinking about it, like when we're in danger situation, we will decide to fight or flight, like what edward has stated. and after we experienced it, the decision that we take will be stored at our hippocampus and it will remains there for a long time. Because if we face the same situation again, our brain knows what we have to do.
So the point that im trying to say in here is we have to be careful of our snap judgment cause it will remain in our memory for a long time. Just like what Koo did in his presentation about the judgment of people from their appearances. if we know that our judgement is wrong, we should change it quickly before it will lead to something bad such as racism.

[stormy44]

I agree with Sageda. Too much information can sometimes throw us off. Snap judgment is something interesting, but I don't think relying on your snap judgment is smart. After you make a judgment of someone, you realize that sometimes it can be wrong. A wrong conclusion or a decision is a possible outcome if you focus too much on your instincts.

[RegXD]

yes i totally agree because im not good at making snap judgement as well. but in order to accomplish that i or we should gain experience through our mistake and correct it when situation that require snap judgement appear. and i think its very important to have better decision on snap judgement for a bad example would be a killer has to decide whether or not to kill to victim or not is totally up to them to decide. so ... yea.