Optimism bias

statement as to the often idealized, but misguided pursuits of the bourgeois middle class. Margret wrote. “Don’t be deluded by any other endings, they’re all fake, either deliberately fake, with malicious intent to deceive, or just motivated by excessive optimism if not downright sentimentality. The only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die. John and Mary die. John and Mary die.” (par…

Accept Your Death Spoiler alert: You are going to die. It may be today or tomorrow, next week or next month, next year or years from now. The timing of death is uncertain, but the probability of death is fixed. Death is inevitable. Accepting that you will die enhances whatever time you have left of this life, especially if you do know that your time is soon expiring. Religion, opinion on past wrongdoings, society’s remembrance, age, support of loved ones and doctors, time remaining, and the…

How can a question be neutral? Neutrality, by its very nature is to not be involved, to not choose a side in dividing circumstances, or to not hold bias. When a question is asked, there is an inquisition for a substantial answer to advance knowledge or information pertaining to a specific topic. When students ask a questions in class, the student may not have a biased intent, however they are directly involving themselves. Questions will always have an underlying intent hindering neutrality, and…

In order to determine that hope exists for humanity in Joseph Conrad’s novel, readers should delve into the literature and investigate its dichotomies: apathy and compassion and life and death. At the same time, readers must be aware that while authors generally have experiences or beliefs that influence their writing, the impressionistic style of fiction writing allows readers “to form his or her own ideas as to what the writer is trying to convey as opposed to the writer telling outright how…

make a world of difference.” While navigating, and governing this new frontier will continue to be a global challenge, there is great hope that the world will all benefit from this new connectivity. As Schmidt and Cohen (258) state, “The case for optimism lies not in sci-fi gadgets or holograms but in the check that technology and connectivity bring against the abuses, suffering and destruction in our world. When exposure meets opportunity, the possibilities are endless. The best thing anyone…

When creating the perfect country, some fundamental concepts must first be defined. For example, the state has multiple views. There are contractarian views defended by Hobbes, Locke, and Rouseau as well as the liberal view of the state. Defined by Weber, the state is “…a human community that successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory” (Weber 1958). There are three components in creating a state. First there is the nation state, which is a…

Zootopia, directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore, is a children’s movie with a much deeper and important message. In the movie, Judy Hopps, a bunny whose whole family works on a carrot farm, becomes Zootopia’s first bunny cop. Zootopia is a big city with animals of all kinds working in all kinds of jobs, just like a normal city. Throughout the movie, Judy is underestimated because of who she is, until she solves a case involving predators become dangerous, or “turning savage”. The different…

Beeken, Eiser & Dalley (2011) reported that patients feeling optimism about treatment, having social support to help cope, having social comparisons with others who have received HCT, changing their expectations (accepting that things will be different and adapting) and setting goals to create a sense of achievement…

The democracy that the forefathers created was a democracy intended for white landed men, but the end of the Civil War catalyzed a series of changes that created a society which better represented its diversity. While civil rights and suffrage have been legally extended to new groups, many of these groups continue to experience discrimination culturally and economically, especially in areas like immigration. Further, new inequalities have emerged with the recent increased visibility of groups…

'46. Even those serving three-year sentences were kept for another five." (Solzhenitsyn 42). The fact that members of the 104th, namely Tyurin, have been given and second term and are regularly threatened with a third further decreases Shukhov’s optimism. Despite the large odds that he could get another term, Shukhov still remains clings onto hope for the future. The quote at the end of the book, "The end of an unclouded day. Almost a happy one. Just one of the 3,653 days of his sentence, from…