Quiz: Problem with Audiences

Quiz: Problem with Audiences
Quiz #A1

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Suspension of Disbelief: Most of us has seen Davey Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean, and we suspended disbelief by believing he's a real character in the movie. Now let's assume you encountered him on a beach in real life. Question 5a: What would be your reaction? Question 5b: Assuming you decided this was a person in a costume, describe the difficulties of creating or wearing such a mask.

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Question 1: The below image is of US soldiers with friends and family invited to watch a small nuclear test in 1962. What is wrong with this audience with regards to safety?

	Question 2: The soccer fans around the world often attack players, referees, or fans of the opposing team. What do you think is wrong with their thinking that makes them do that?
	Question 3: Many infomercials use an audience of "everyday people like you and me." The camera often shows the reactions of the audience and even gets comments from them. What's often wrong with this audience?
	Question 4: These chrome kettles look like they have faces on them. What is forming the eyes, nose, and mouth?
Suspension of Disbelief: Most of us has seen Davey Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean, and we suspended disbelief by believing he's a real character in the movie. Now let's assume you encountered him on a beach in real life. Question 5a: What would be your reaction? Question 5b: Assuming you decided this was a person in a costume, describe the difficulties of creating or wearing such a mask.

	Question 6: Someone has released a huge amount of pollutant into the river and no one noticed where it came from. How do you think the polluter was able to hide its crime?
	Question 7: China has been quite lax about pollution. Here we see some buildings discharging chemicals, which might be some kind of pollutant. If so, where do you guess these pollutants go?
	Question 8: An old colleague of mine from the Phoenix Crime Lab worked on a case where two eyewitnesses standing near each other were both looking down a street. One says he saw a muzzle flash and the other said he didn't. Assuming both are telling the truth and nothing blocked their view, how might it be that one person saw a large muzzle flash and the other person didn't?
	On the show, "B.S," with magicians Penn & Teller, they show how blood is attracted to a magnet. Every time Teller moved the big black magnet to one side or the other of the glass tray, the blood would be pulled towards it. Question 9: Actually, blood is not attracted to a magnet despite the little bit of iron in blood, so how did they make it look like the blood was attracted to the magnet?
	Question 10: This yogurt is called Peaches & Creme. (a) What do the graphics on the container imply regarding peaches in the yogurt? (b) Which do you think it has in it, whole peaches, peach slices, peach pieces, peach juice, or none of these? (notice the label on the bottom of the container)
	A good portion of the brain is dedicated to analyzing faces. As a result we try to see faces in anything that even remotely looks like a face. That's why we hear claims about seeing faces in so many things. Question 11: A person's head and face is in this mix of coffee beans. Find it and tell me where it is. The task is difficult because we think we might see a face in every bean.
	William Lutz, a professor of English at Rutgers University, wrote several books on doublespeak, which has these attributes: misleads distorts reality pretends to communicate makes the bad seem good avoids or shifts responsibility makes the negative appear positive creates a false verbal map of the world limits, conceals, corrupts, and prevents thought makes the unpleasant appear attractive or tolerable creates incongruity between reality and what is said or not said Question 12: Give me three examples of doublespeak and explain why is it doublespeak (Don't use ones I mentioned in the tutorial.)
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