Monday, May 14, 2012
How differences may seem fair when they are not
We live in a world where going out with girls labels oneself as a flirt while going out with guys labels oneself as gay (this is taken in point of view of a guy). This is just another example of how we can never satisfy everyone else out there completely and there will always be a negativity in the midst of positiveness.
An incident today which a Ferrari crash into a Taxi with 4 passengers set out a roar of displeasure in the net. Everyone immediately labelled the Ferrari owner to be at fault on the pre-text of being rich, impatient and reckless. They demanded compensation to the taxi driver with the 4 passengers as well. This is just another brilliant case of availability heuristic. I would agree that there is a certain portion of people driving Ferrari are reckless but then we are overgeneralizing this to say all people driving Ferrari behave in that particular way. We have to return to the base rate of things to see whether the accidents by Taxi is greater than Ferrari. In addition, because we give such high psychological weight-age to rare occurance such as this, the label for the Ferrari driver is further intensified to be extremely reckless by ordinary people.
Irrational as one may be, we will always fall into such trap when we are not aware of such heuristics. We have moved on far in the technological realm but we have not matured in our rational abilities for centuries. If education can only lend us to be more proficient in the technological aspect, what can we do to improve and understand our own behavior?
Posted by saberX @ 12:32 PM
0 Comments
<< Home
