Thursday, October 22, 2015

Mind the Gap

Follow the link to Gapminder from the list at the right. Choose a data set (in graph form) and, in a post below, write a first-order claim, a second-order claim, and a knowledge question, all based on the data visualization you've selected.

23 comments:

  1. First order claim: In 2007 there were 415 dollar billionaires in the United States.

    Second order claim: Mathematical models allow us to be able to know how many billionaires there were in the United States in 2007.

    Knowledge question: How does Math play a significant role in us being able to know how many billionaires were in the United States in 2007?

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    1. First order claim: In 2007 there were 415 dollar billionaires in the United States.

      Second order Claim: To understand mathematical models we depend on sense perception.

      Knowledge question: To what extent do we depend on sense perception to understand mathematical models?

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  2. First order claim: Taiwan is on average, better at math than El Salvador.
    Second order claim: Stereotypes affect the way we know a peice of information.
    Knowledge Question: Do stereotypes affect the way a knower understands a piece of information.

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  3. 1st Order Claim:
    1. According to the data graph on Gapminder.com, China has had the most suicides on record from 2002-2004.
    2nd Order Claim:
    1. Human scientific knowledge is derived from statistics and observations.

    Knowledge Question:
    To what extent does information from statistical evidence imply that human scientific knowledge is certain?

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  4. First Order Claim: In 1800 the average age for women to get married was 27.

    Second Order Claim: Historical knowledge affects the decisions that we make today

    Knowledge Question: How does bias affect how history is received

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    1. Second order claim: Historical knowledge is continually altered because of biased views.

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  5. First order:
    The most suicides in the world in 2004, occurred in China.

    Second order:
    Knowledge of human sciences can be observed through human actions.

    Knowledge question:
    To what extent does psycology allow people to understand their actions?

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    1. Knowledge Question:
      To what extent does knowledge of human sciences justify human actions?

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  6. First order claim:United States has higher personal income and food supplies.

    Second order claim: Human science have certain interpretation with food supply.

    Knowledge Question: How can the the knowledge of food supply improve our understanding of correspond personal income?

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    1. First order claim: United States has highest personal income and food supplies.

      Second order claim: Natural science interpreted with wealth of different ethics.

      Knowledge Question: How does wealth in ethics related to the knowledge of natural science?

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  7. First Order:
    - In 1955, Japanese people, ages 15-29, had the highest rates of suicide.
    Second Order:
    - Historical fact allows us to gain contextual knowledge.
    Knowledge Question:
    - To what extent is our interpretation of historical knowledge biased by language and, or emotion?

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    1. Second Order:
      - Historical knowledge allows us to interpret, and put into context, historical fact.

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  8. First order claim: Moldova is the country whose adults consume the most alcohol
    Second order claim: Our ethics will always lead us to being biased when we interpret these graphs.
    Knowledge question: To what extent can we question that these facts are indeed facts?

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    2. second order claim:
      It is impossible to look at a source without using ingrained judgements.

      knowledge question:
      To what extent can we question the knowledge gathered for these pieces of statistical evidence?

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  9. First Order: It is misleading to catagorize all African countries as one country since they are different from one another in almost every way.

    Second Order: It is possible to gain knowledge from an assimilation of data.

    Knowledge Question: To what extent does one's opinion of an idea change because of presented facts?

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    1. Second Order: It is possible to interprete data by using language.
      Knowledge Question: To what extent can language be used to interpret data sets?

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  10. Murder (per 100 000 People) v. Income per Person

    First-order Claim: There were an average 2.2 murders per 100 000 people in 1950 in Japan.

    Second-order Claim: Historical knowledge comes from records.

    Knowledge Question: To what extent does recorded data shape our historical knowledge?

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  11. First order claim: The income per person in the U.S. is more expensive than the income per person in Japan. However, the life expectancy of Japanese are longer than the life expectancy of Americans.

    Second order claim: Visualization of knowledge can sometimes convey more than written language.

    Knowledge question: To what extend does visualization of knowledge help leaners?

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  12. 1.) Qatar has the highest income per person and the highest literacy rates in adult females of any country as of 2010.
    2.) Preconceived ideas lead to misconceptions about a country's standard of living.
    3.) How does knowledge of a culture (indigenous knowledge system) change perceptions of a country's standard of living.

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  13. First order claim: China's income per person increased from 1800 to 2015.
    Second order claim: To interpret the graph, we use our sense perception.
    Knowledge question: How important is sense perception for us as a way of knowing?

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  14. 1st order order claim
    The amount of children out of school in India dropped about 15 million from 2002 to 2004
    2nd order claim
    Knowers have to use their understanding of basic mathematical skills to read this graph
    Knowledge question
    Which area of knowledge do knowers need to understand this graph?

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  15. First Order Claim
    -The United States has 1.9 bad teeth per child

    Second Order Claim
    -In general, knowledge represented in graphs carries more weight and means more to us then the same knowledge represented as raw data or even verbally summarized.

    Knowledge Question
    -How severely does the manipulation of statistical knowledge affect our understanding of information?

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