Week 6: Graduating from English Class to Movies, Plot Twists, and… Brain Rot?
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Hello everyone! Thank you for stopping by again to the wonderful world of literary devices, survey distribution, and complex philosophical concepts 🙂
This week’s blog post is going to be a little bit of everything, so buckle up!
If you were here last week, hopefully you put your English skills to good use, and noticed a little analogy going on (that may or may not have to do with a certain AP Research student that’s working on a political research project 🙃). I am happy to report good news about said student: she has started her presentation! She may or may not have spent an unnecessarily long time being indecisive on the template she wanted to use, but after some splicing and modifications, the base template has been chosen, with some fun features she is excited to use :). She has some slides done, and still has lots of slides until completion, so there will definitely be more updates in the future.
(If you want to see her presentation, make sure to look out for future news on SRP presentation week! Besides me—or I should say “her”—everyone is doing awesome things that are totally worth seeing 😊)
Next, let’s take a peek into survey distribution! The survey has been distributed, and results are starting to come in, which is awesome. Through my external advisor, Julie, we were able to distribute them to NAU professors who will then distribute them to their students.
HOWEVER! PLOT TWIST! Like any cheesy 2010’s movie, the main character has decided to add some ✨spice✨ to her project. Last Friday, I met in person with Julie, who suggested expanding my population. So…I wasn’t indecisive for once (re: too much time spent on slides templates 😅), and I made the definitive decision to expand my survey population. The logic here was the more data, the better. I sent the link to my parents, who have posted it on their socials, and I will also be including the link here, if anyone wants to take a peek!
To adjust for this change, I ended up including a question that asks whether the participant is a college student. This way, if needed, I can stratify depending on that factor. Second, this Friday I will be meeting with my advisor again and because of this change, I will try to extend the deadline to midnight on the 6th, so that there’s a few extra days for other people to take the survey.
And speaking of meeting with my advisor, last week I met with my advisor to go over the paper I summarized in the last post. Julie has a lot of expertise on philosophy in general, so it was wonderful to hear her thoughts. Most notably, we both concluded that perhaps opacity respect is missing something. It seems like a good idea to remove judgements of people’s agential capabilities, but is there perhaps a case to be made for recognition respect, where we take people’s agency and choices into account. Simply put, opacity respect leans more neutral—”I’m not going to make judgements”—and recognition respect is more active—”I give weight to this person’s decisions when respecting them.”
Here’s a table that gives a brief summary of our summary (who remembers learning about repetition in English class?) with some fun colloquial definitions 🙂
And here’s the survey link again if you missed it earlier: survey
Thank you for reading! See y’all next week!
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