Did you have personal feedback while trying this exercise on yourself? What was your initial reaction? (Be sure to include title/thesis with a work cited)
For this weeks discussion post I have decided to use Figure 2 on page 25 of Kahnemans book, Thinking Fast and Slow. The purpose of this experiment was to bring forth the conflict between System 1 and System 2 mentioned by Kahneman.
The material that I used for this experiment was a separate sheet of paper with the Figure 2 out of the book printed on a white copy paper (see image below). I chose a group of 12 participants for this experiment. There were 11 women and one male. The youngest participant was a 12-year-old girl. The others were between the ages of 23and43. Five of the participants were students (my dental hygiene students). The youngest was a colleagues daughter who happened to be there because she had the day off from school. The other six were faculty colleagues (all female hygienists, with one male dentist).
The participants were all told to do the same thing. Phase 1, read the two columns and first call out whether the word is printed in lowercase or uppercase. Phase 2, call out whether the word is printed on the left side or the right side of the midline in each column.
These were my results.
All participants made zero errors except for one participant. One of the females, a 23-year-old hygiene student, made an error during phase 1 of the experiment. When she began to read the second column, she read the word instead of telling me that it was lower case. She then corrected herself and slowed down to take her time. She was the only participant that proceeded to tell me that she doesnt enjoy reading. I thought this was interesting because she read the words correctly, indicating that system 1 was in charge but didnt slow down to make sure that she was correct because she wanted to rush through instead of taking her time.
This was some of the feedback that I received.
The most common responses I received for the first phase, was that most of the participants had to remind themselves not to read the word (turning off system 1) but look at the first letter of the word or look for either big or small letters (relying on system 2). The other feedback that I received was that the participants had a hard time not taking into consideration that the words were either in the left-hand column, on the page, or in the right-hand column. Therefore, making it hard to disassociate the words from the two columns, and from what the word reads (left or right) during phase 2. Proving that because System 2 is in charge of self-control (Kahneman, pg.26), it is evident that System 2 is needed to overcome system 1 when completing the tasks in this experiment.
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