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Title: TOK practice presentation: How do patterns influence the pursuit of knowledge
Description: This is a short presentation for Theory of knowledge (TOK) of the IB Diploma Programme with title: How do patterns affect the pursuit of knowledge?. It can be useful when you are preparing for your TOK Essay, because it also contains a real-life example, backed up by theory and appropriate TOK terms. It focuses on social and natural sciences, contrasts these two and explains how patterns can facilitate the pursuit of knowledge and when they can be harmful. It also opens many interesting questions to think about.
Description: This is a short presentation for Theory of knowledge (TOK) of the IB Diploma Programme with title: How do patterns affect the pursuit of knowledge?. It can be useful when you are preparing for your TOK Essay, because it also contains a real-life example, backed up by theory and appropriate TOK terms. It focuses on social and natural sciences, contrasts these two and explains how patterns can facilitate the pursuit of knowledge and when they can be harmful. It also opens many interesting questions to think about.
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How do patterns affect the pursuit of knowledge?
Hello, we are xxx and yyy and today we will discuss the impact of patterns on the pursuit of
knowledge
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We can find them in just any area of knowledge: mathematics (a pattern of numbers), natural
sciences (DNA structure), human sciences (behavioral patterns), the arts (decorative designs),
religious knowledge systems (rituals), indigenous knowledge systems (dances)
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Let’s say
that your roommate has been murdered
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RLS: Mourning over dead is one of the most common patterns in Western society
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British exchange student by the name Meredith Kercher was
killed in her own apartment that she shared with 3 friends
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There was no DNA linking her to
the crime scene, she had no motive whatsoever
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For instance, when visiting the crime scene she was given a
pair of protective booties and as she put them on she swiveled her hips as if she was trying on a
brand new dress and said:” Ta-dah
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And while she was waiting to be interviewed by the police she started doing splits to stretch
her muscles, right when an inspector entered the room, which of course was not interpreted in her
favor
...
”
Amanda Knox, along with her boyfriend were found guilty of Kercher’s murder and sentenced to 26
years in prison
...
In 2014 she was
once again found guilty of her roommate’s murder and the latter convictions of the court were once
again overturned a year later
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Especially in human sciences there are many
exceptions that don’t obey the patterns we thought to be universal
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By searching for patterns in day to day
interactions we label human beings as robots that are deemed to do everything the same over and
over again
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But on the other hand patterns can be very useful or even necessary
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Most experiments leave a set of measurements, values, numbers etc
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Due to the anomalies finding a pattern is usually not easy
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With this periodic table he didn’t just organize
the pre-existing knowledge, but was able to predict the properties of the unknown elements and
prompted their discovery
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Which ways of knowing do you think give us the most unbiased patterns? Are there any?
In which area of knowledge patterns are more reliable and in which they are less reliable?
We mustn’t forget that the whole scientific process itself is a form of pattern
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First they come up with a research question, then they gather the existing knowledge and
make a hypothesis
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At least that it the so-called safe way
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Can you think of any discoveries that did not follow the scientific method (spontaneous—
serendipity)? (Microwave, radioactivity, penicillin, insulin…)
Now we have seen that recognizing patterns can be a useful skill, but another thing we should be
aware of is, that though patterns are so common, we often recognize them even if they don’t exist
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You’ve probably heard that our constant
search for patterns has an evolutionary origin, therefore it is probably not only limiting our pursuit of
knowledge, but also helped us to survive
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Sometimes we identify a pattern that is not there, which is called Type I error, and sometimes we
don’t recognize a pattern that exist, which is called Type II error
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In the past, Type II error
was far more dangerous: not recognizing a predator meant death while recognizing it, when it wasn’t
there just meant some unnecessary panic
...
It reduced the frequency of Type II Error, letting more Type I Errors
to occur
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Sometimes patterns can also provide us
evidence, based on which we can make new conclusions
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With all
the limitations in mind we can reduce the number of fallacies that the use of patterns bring into the
pursuit of knowledge
Title: TOK practice presentation: How do patterns influence the pursuit of knowledge
Description: This is a short presentation for Theory of knowledge (TOK) of the IB Diploma Programme with title: How do patterns affect the pursuit of knowledge?. It can be useful when you are preparing for your TOK Essay, because it also contains a real-life example, backed up by theory and appropriate TOK terms. It focuses on social and natural sciences, contrasts these two and explains how patterns can facilitate the pursuit of knowledge and when they can be harmful. It also opens many interesting questions to think about.
Description: This is a short presentation for Theory of knowledge (TOK) of the IB Diploma Programme with title: How do patterns affect the pursuit of knowledge?. It can be useful when you are preparing for your TOK Essay, because it also contains a real-life example, backed up by theory and appropriate TOK terms. It focuses on social and natural sciences, contrasts these two and explains how patterns can facilitate the pursuit of knowledge and when they can be harmful. It also opens many interesting questions to think about.