week 7 dq response

I apologize again for any offense.

The problem I had was the foundation premise of the study. The answers the study was looking for had a fundamental flaw, well several. but the fundamental flaw to the questions asked was based from a prejudice foundation. That is what bothered me.

To me the questions were like testing a group of creatures to go fetch the banana from the tree. Only one has the biology to perform the task with absolute ease, the rest either struggle or no possible way to achieve the goal. The one who has no chance is the fish, in a bowl. The foundation of the test and all questions in that cartoon are entirely bias and inappropriate.

That would be a great study for a more appropriate community. The study relied upon assumptions which white western cultures have been centered on for the last 1000 years. The only way to get ahead in this world is to obtain a proper academic standing. This is not a species wide understanding; this is a foundation schema for white western culture. That point was not made clear at all.

Another example of where a foundation of a series of questions which the researcher asked in a pure innocent and scholastic way the audience cannot help to be insulted.

The conversation in the movie “Smokey and the Bandit” starring Burt Reynolds and Sally Field is an example. The character Burt was playing was a southern truck driver, who is used to bootlegging. His field of experience is entirely different from that of the character Sally Field was playing. They asked each other a series of questions which the other person had all but zero idea of any context of the questions.

Which reminds me on fb and other social media formats, occasionally their will be a; if you can answer these questions you are a native of x state or you are from y culture. Not all that different from the “Jeff Foxworthy you might be a redneck” comedy routine. Which over the years his routine almost qualifies as a qualitative study. This list of questions and obviously if you are from that culture answers, is on the extreme side of subject and culture specific. Outside of that culture some of the questions and answers are extremely insulting. However, Jeff frames them so they are not insulting but funny.

This study aimed at a producing a really good thing, good questions, but the premise needs to be seriously rethought through.