Re: The Misremembered Man Book Club Questions
Beatris Ninh
To conclude, eyewitness testimony is very powerful and convincing to jurors, even though it is not particularly reliable. Identification errors occur, and these errors can lead to people being falsely accused and even convicted. Likewise, eyewitness memory can be corrupted by leading questions, misinterpretations of events, conversations with co-witnesses, and their own expectations for what should have happened. People can even come to remember whole events that never occurred.
Bill Bigelow is the curriculum editor of Rethinking Schools and co-director of the Zinn Education Project. These questions and teaching ideas are part of a suite of activities being developed to accompany How the Word Is Passed by a Zinn Education Project curriculum collective, which also includes Jesse Hagopian, Cierra Kaler-Jones, Ana Rosado, and Ursula Wolfe-Rocca.
We used some of the discussion questions on the Zinn Education Project website as a starting point for our in-class discussion. Each student then prepared a poster for our university research colloquium, where they discussed the issues of interpretation of African American history with other faculty and students on our campus. In fact, one of the students took first place in the Humanities poster competition!
There's also muscle memory. Muscle memory is similarly stable over time. It's a little bit of a misnomer. Muscle memory doesn't live in your muscles. This actually lives in a part of your brain called the motor cortex. That part of your brain tells all of the voluntary muscles in your body what to do. Muscle memory is the memorized choreography, the procedure for how to do things - how to brush your teeth how to swing a golf club, how to eat an ice cream cone. This is where the expression "just like riding a bike comes in", right? You can not ride a bike for decades and then get back on the bike and your brain will remember the choreography. You'll get on the bike and ride.
And so the more that we understand about the biology of memory, the science of memory, the more we can develop a better relationship with it. Your identity is so closely tied to your ability to remember. If someone meets you, the first question people often ask is, "what do you do?" "Where are you from?" "Tell me about your family." The answers to all of those questions, rely on memory. Your ability to remember what happened, the story of your life, is really who we say we are.
This is an edited transcript of the book club discussion. Every month the Rumpus Poetry Book Club hosts an online discussion with the book club members and the author, and we post an edited version online as an interview. To join the Rumpus Poetry Book Club, click here. Upcoming poets include Kevin Simmonds, Kaveh Akbar, Carly Ingram, Derrick Austin, Amanda Moore, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Matthew Olzmann, and more!
As I noted earlier this month, I got too many good responses when I solicited Ask Me Anything questions in October, so I decided to break my responses into two parts. Here\u2019s Part 1, and now for Part 2, which covers. . . a wide variety of issues. This, uhhhh, may have crept up to over 10,000 words. I will not be offended if you skip questions that don\u2019t interest you, but I\u2019m hoping there\u2019s at least something here for everyone. I also apologize for the delay in publishing Part 2 of this post about the empirical evidence for/against color-blind approaches to discussing race and racism, which I\u2019m eager to get up. You\u2019ll have it in December. And premium subscribers, don\u2019t forget to submit an aviation question for Patrick Smith if you have one.
I separate my eggs and beat the whites to get them a little frothy and add to the yolks. I ALWAYS use a sparkling water. Fresher the better. I have a soda stream at home and make my club soda right before adding to the matzo mix. I use vegtable oil instead of chicken fat and always keep the mixture in the fridge for AT LEAST 3 hours before cooking. I ALWAYS cook in salt water for 30-45 minutes and then transfer to the broth to finish. The matzo balls absorb way too much water to be cooked in the broth. Adding them 15 minutes before serving will give them great flavor. Never fails.
This methods case study discusses how the focus and reporting of a series of impression formation experiments evolved over time. Support for the initial study hypotheses was not obtained, but effects that were initially viewed as peripheral were ultimately recognized as telling a different, but nonetheless interesting and cohesive narrative. Thus, we reframed our presentation of this work, and in doing so had the responsibility to be transparent about this change in focus and mindful about best research practices. This case study begins by summarizing the original intent of this research project and proceeds to discuss an anticipated methodological issue: whether to manipulate variables within- or between-subjects. We then proceed to discuss two unanticipated challenges. First, as we wrote up results that did not support our focal hypotheses, we had to negotiate the desire to streamline the reporting of the findings with the need to be ethical and transparent about our original research intentions. Second, upon receiving reviewer comments, we decided the best way to address these was to bring in a statistics expert to advise us on addressing more sophisticated questions regarding the mechanism underlying the obtained effects. We conclude our discussion with a brief reflection on the project as a whole and our advice based on this experience.
DREBEN, J. The defendant was convicted of kidnapping, armed robbery, assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, and six counts of aggravated rape. The jury could have found the following facts. On late Friday, November 30, 1984, the female victim was in a parked car in Franklin Park with her boyfriend, the male victim, when a bullet and a rock came through the back window of their car. Thereafter, the passenger window was smashed with a broken golf club. The female victim saw five youths. One, whom she later identified as the defendant, and who had been called "Lorenzo," dragged her from the car. She was forced to climb a hill where she was raped by each of the five youths and was compelled to perform fellatio on each of the five. The defendant also urinated upon her.
In his appeal the defendant claims that questions asked by the prosecutor went beyond the permissible scope of redirect examination and that the prosecutor's trial tactics and closing argument were so improper and prejudicial that a new trial is warranted. We disagree and affirm the convictions.
1. The defense in its questioning of the victim stressed the darkness of the locations and the absence of adequate lighting. On redirect, the prosecutor attempted to show that, at various points during her ordeal, the victim was very close to the defendant and to his face and, thus, had ample opportunity to see him clearly. Such questions were proper in light of the cross-examination by the defense attempting to discredit the victim's identification. See Commonwealth v. Hoffer, 375 Mass. 369, 375-376 (1978). In any event, the judge has discretion to allow redirect concerning matters not touched on in cross-examination. Id. at 375.
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@Ellen, that's so funny, that is the topic of my next blog post! A few people have emailed me about this. Hopefully the post will answer your questions. I'll leave it at that to avoid a bunch of off-topic comments, but you can email me if you want more info sooner.
And it wasn't really until Po and I had found the research of Sarah Fulton, a political science professor at Texas A&M, that really started changing the game for me. She surveyed 835 sitting state legislators, and she asked them two questions: What's the likelihood you're going to run for Congress in the next election? And if you did run, would you win?
And what she found was that, for ambitious legislators, there was no relationship between those questions. If they wanted to run, they were in. But, for women, the answer was: I'm not going to run unless they had at least a 20 percent chance of winning. If it was a 50-50, then the women were in, and the more likely they were going to win, the more likely they were going to compete.
BRONSON: ...I used to work on Wall Street. You know, my mom was a stockbroker and she made no money there and was badly treated. And when I was a bond salesman I saw women badly treated. And there's a long history in Wall Street of that. To some extent, Wall Street fails in making a distinction of who should be measuring risks versus who should be taking risk. To some extent, the young boys club of Wall Street, that's kind of what it takes to put all this money on the line and do these crazy things with money, is to be somewhat ignorant of the odds and overconfident. But for the people analyzing stocks, those people need to be very good at judging the odds.
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