In class this week, we watched a TED talk that brought up an interesting view on the choices we make. The ted talk consists of Dan Ariely talking about how some simple choices people make in life are made for them. He gives out a random statistic of European countries participation in their organ donor's program. It shows a graph of various countries and the results show that the turnout was either very high, or very low. He talks about how certain cultures may affect these numbers, but he compares nations with similar cultures that are on the graph and it shows that countries with similar culture can have completely different numbers! He provided the evidence of how this is fact. The reason why these countries had different outcomes of their organ donor programs was because of the wording of the question of "would you like to be an organ donor". On the federal form s of the countries with high organ donor participation, the question was "mark this box if you do not want to be an organ donor", while the countries with low turnout asked the question "mark this box if you do want to be an organ donor". This evidence provided a conclusion that people will participate if the question is formed a certain way. I found this very compelling because I began to thought about what types of decisions I may have made on a strategically worded question. This also impacted me in a way that i will have to think about my decisions are bit harder, and really dissect the question in order to understand it. This is also a good thing to know because now I can potentially word a question in order to get the results i want. I found this TED talk to be very useful and thought provoking, and am glad we watched it in class.
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