JINS Course Reflection: Analysis of Final Presentations and Topics

This document presents a student's reflection on a JINS course, focusing on the final presentation and chosen topics. The student reflects on the course's interdisciplinary nature and highlights impactful presentations, including those on Evolution vs. Creationism, Sex Ed in schools, and China's one-child policy. The reflection also analyzes the student's presentation on whether stay-at-home moms should receive government salaries, discussing personal experiences and the importance of family time. Additionally, the student analyzes Hans Rosling's TED Talk on global development and the biases that affect our understanding of the world, emphasizing the course's goal of viewing information from multiple perspectives. The student concludes by advocating for the importance of considering different viewpoints and the value of interdisciplinary thinking.

Take-Home Final
Presentation Reflection (Reflection)
When i need to selecting my JINS course in last semester. I did not know which title I
wanted to bid for. The course title, Why you are Wrong just intrigued me. It look likes something
I am wrong but I do not know. I really want to know what am i wrong and i still don’t know,
then to choice this class. This course are almost done, but i still would actually enjoy the class.
To be honest, my favorite part of the class was people presentations. Because look all of
classmates to talk about the topic what they like and their opinion let me to think lots of thing i
am wrong and I don’t know. All of the presentations were a pleasant part of the semester. It is
really a good course and good way to help me growth.
One of the most interdisciplinary presentations was Joe Williamson-Link’s presentation
on Evolution vs Creationism. His work was about the ancient battle of religion vs. science, of
faith vs. reason, anecdotes vs. evidence. Arguing for either side - though, perhaps more-so for the
science side - requires a synthesis of many different fields of study that don’t usually interact
with one another except when this topic comes up.. I thought he did a very nice job of discussing
both sides of the story, instead of focusing on just why one way of thinking is better than the
other. It is not possible to cover the arguments used by both sides of this debate well without
having some serious breadth of knowledge. It made each and every person of the audience think
interdisciplinary, and that was the whole goal of this class in the first place.
Joe get the pretty highly grades on my heart because of the audience think
interdisciplinary, but my favorite presentation came from Darell Hawley while she presented on

Sex Ed in the schools. She started off the presentation in a very unique way that captured
everyone’s attention by playing music as she introduced her topic. Then the fact that she created
her own plan for how to teach Sex-Ed in schools was very impressive to me. I can feel her heart
in this topic, and i am also really like this topic but i never to think about how to teach that on
school. She answered questions seamlessly and had appeared to thought of every aspect the class
could throw at her. She was well prepared for the presentation, communicated effectively, and
defended her position spectacularly.
Darell have had the best presentation that is my favorite and have not enough courage to
talk about question, but there was a presentation caught my attention pretty much that was Weiyi
Wang’s Chinese one child policy. I could feel his passion in the topic, and that really had an
impact on me. It was a topic that I have not really thought about before, but now I am fully
convinced that her plan would be a benefit to Chinese society. I also liked how it was something
a topic dear to him and he used some stories from his life experiences to make the presentation
interesting. Even though he went over on the time, his presentation was not boring at all and was
easy to listen to.
The presentation process turned out being on of my favorite things from my classes this
semester. I really enjoyed just relaxing and listening to people talk about things that they are
passionate about. Since that was the goal of the class, it showed that the presenters took
something from the class and used it to show the audience why we were wrong.
Changed Opinion on Policy (Course Topics)

I choose topic Should stay at home moms get a salary from the government? When I am
young ,my family are not rich, my parents need to work whole day. They go out to work maybe
before 7 o’clock and come back after 10 o’clock. They have to time to stay with me. Lots of
Chinese children are same as me. Sometimes i do not want to talk with my parents what i really
think about rather than to talk about my friend. To be honest, the friend are more important than
my parents. This is why i choose this topic, maybe mom stay at home can get a slary from the
government can help more Chinese like me.
Most do not agree but some do. There are many different opinions on whether or not stay
at home moms should get a salary or not. It is also frowned upon when a mother leaves their
child at a young age. Most stay at home moms are put down and called lazy all because they
don’t have a so called real job, but being a stay at home mom is hard. Stay at home moms
deserve to be treated the same as a working mom. Most women when they get pregnant try to
work until almost due date then they take a leave for at least 6 weeks then try to return to their
jobs and cannot because the company has already replaced her. Some moms do not have the
heart to go back to work after they are released by the doctors. Some moms have been so used to
being at home with their child and taking care of them all day that they cannot go back to a job at
some company or whatever they did before they had the baby. Everyone has a different opinion
on how much a stay at home mom is worth. By today’s market they are worth a lot more than
most think.
People have to realize just what a stay at home mom does, they cook, wash clothes, do dishes,
clean the house, run errands, take kids everywhere, etc. and if you added up how much working
people make doing those jobs it can add up. But instead of people looking at all the work that
stay at home moms do they just look at them as failing to achieve their potential when they

remove themselves from the workplace. They are not failures they just decided to stay at home
and spend all their time with their kids.
The parents because of the family to work hard and have no time to stay with their when the
child adult. They we adult and going to found a work and have no time to stay with parents. All
in all, the parents and their child have not too much time to stay together. My main idea are not
say yes for this questions. I just want to let all of child know how your parents love you, if you
have time should to stay with them. Let all of parents know, do not just to think about make
more money, pay more attention for your child. To talk about this topic, let the American and
Chinese government know the child like me need mom stay more time with us. This topic yes or
no are not important. The most important is pay more attention to the people who are your
closest relative.
Hans Rosling Analysis (Global Poverty and Race)
Hans Rosling begins the TED talk by having the members of the listeners answer three
questions about global development. As he is talking about the questions, he contrast the overall
result of the listeners to the people of Sweden, people of the United States, and chimpanzees. He

asked:“how have deaths from natural disasters changed over the past century?” “How long has
the average 30 year old woman spend in school?” etc. Ironically, the highest marking group were
chimpanzees, and the poorest scoring group were the people of Sweden. The message that came
across to the listener from this vote is people need to be more either need to be more aware of
history, or have a more positive outlook on these topics. The evidence from the poll suggests that
one would have a greater chance at reaching to the answers if they were chimps, and choose at
stochastic. In order for the listener to become less ignorant about the world, Ola Rosling, Hans
Rosling’s son, goes through a series of situations where one can flip his or her perspective.
Ola began his part of the presentation stating that the world tends to be unknowing due to
some of the biases that we have in our lives. One of the reasons is that we have a personal bias
based on how we grow up. When we go to school, we get taught an outdated worldview based on
what they learned without putting any new stuff into their education. News also causes a bias to
our ignorance because the media picks the biggest headlines to get people to read them. Human
instinct helps to skew the intelligence that humans have. They seem to believe that they are the
best at everything that they do due to the intuition that they have.
Ola Rosling goes through for his admonitions goes from simplified topics to more
complex topics. The very first place he addresses is a place everyone is familiar with: their
vicinity. Ola Rosling’s proposal is to remove the personal bias from neighborhoods. The next
order is in regards to school teachers, especially teachers who have taught for a few decades.
Rosling request teachers typically teach with an opinion that is old shape and use sources that
they used when they were students, which would be outdated. Education needs to adjust to what
is happening in the current times, with relevant information. Personally, public education in the
United States does an outstanding job by keeping information relevant.

At the end of the video, Ola offers four regulation of thumb to provide a good way to beat
the chimps, who do not have the power of hunch like humans do. On the whole, the rules of
thumb sum up to corner the misconceptions about the world into knowledge. Assume that the
media presents things as an hyperbole. The media may present how everything gets worse, when
in reality everything gets better. Ola’s talking points really comes down to taking a sheet of
information and looking at it from all sides. The mass media, ancient information, and personal
bias may all present a skewed view of the world. If we look at it from other points of view, such
as using information from different disciplines, then we can decide for ourselves which point of
view is the correct one. This goal lines up with the goal of any JINS course; to view information
from as many sides of the argument to help paint a complete picture of the issue at hand. If we
do this, then maybe one day we will be able to be smarter than the chimps.