(Pre.Script. I never explain to you what Value P is,
get curious and do some exploring once in awhile why don’t you)
Walker Percy’s short essay entitled ‘The Loss Of The Creature’ was a remarkable yet difficult text for me to get through. While I was enthralled by the points I was able to understand, I was at the same time baffled by things he talked about which didn’t register with me.
What was most intriguing to me was Percy’s notion of how a person’s individual perception about something buried or even lost due to the expectation and organization of preexisting methods of though. Percy talks about an individual viewing a place for the first time with fresh eyes and dubbing it to be beautiful. Perhaps the person then goes home and tells everyone how beautiful the place is, or takes photos of it to showcase it’s beauty. Soon, many people are traveling [...]
Original post by Peanut!
Great post, I’m trying to think back to my statistics class and value p.
Good connection back to learning here. How often do we go into a class with a preconceived notion of what it will be like, based on what others say or prior experiences of other classes?
Imagine we just assumed the summit of every mountain looked the same and no one ever ventured to those heights because, ‘hey if you’ve seen on mountain top you’ve seen ‘em all, right?’ Of course this is a silly idea yet we treat classes with the same attitude.
We should not be testing against a p value to determine where our sets of facts and figures fits in. For me that is too sterile, too statistical, and takes away from the aesthetic appeal of climbing that mountain or doing anything new for that matter.
There is something to be said about sharing experiences but, there needs to be an understanding that ever experience is unique and every nuance in our world contains many meanings and our perception depends on what lens you view those nuances through.