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1. Why is it necessary to quantify something like wisdom? Why is the scientific aspect of things so important to verify the significance of things
2. Does Clayton have a certain kind of biased opinion since she became interested in this topic because of her family, or does that seem to give her an insight that is valuable? (227)
3. How does the topic of wisdom, and quantifying wisdom relate to the Bush administrations concentration on quantifying religious/physical/mental healing from prayer? How large is the political aspect, and what can we do to stay an informed and unswayed public?
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1. Do more trying life experiences allow someone to gain more wisdom than someone who has not had a difficult life? (225)
2. The original concepts discovered by the Berlin Wisdom Paradigm were hard to understand because they were so abstract. Would it be possible to describe wisdom quantitatively in terms that are not abstract and difficult to understand? (231)
3. What qualities would a society need in order to be considered wise? Would the same three characteristics that applies to an individual (cognitive, reflective, and affective) also apply to a society? ( 227, 241)
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James - Question formation 4
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1) Is there a particular reason that scientists, who tend to have very quantitative minds, are so fascinated by qualitative concepts like wisdom?
2) The greatest struggle for those studying wisdom seems to be the exact definition of the term. As a word, “wisdom” is well-defined (it’s in the dictionary, after all), yet the scientific community cannot seem to agree on an exact meaning – is this really a question for scientists or a linguistic issue?
3) The reading says that most studies into wisdom have focused on Western concepts of wisdom. In Western culture there tends to be a very sharp divide between science and other methods of study that does not necessarily exist in Eastern culture. Would studying Eastern concepts of wisdom with Western methods create a valid hypothesis, or would the basic approach render a conclusion invalid?
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1. What are the varying degrees of wisdom based upon the reading? (233, 234, 235)
2. What qualities do we associate with wisdom in society? (224, 225)
3. What did researchers discover based upon the "Beeper Research Study"? (238, 239, 240
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Question Formation #4 - Lesley Snyder
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Apr 1 2009, 10:15 PM EDT by
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#1 - Do you agree with Clayton's statment "neither were the old always wise, nor the young lacking in wisdom"? Why or why not?
Source: Hall, pg. 227
#2 - Do you think that wisdom is genetically inherited? or do you think it has to do with one's life experiences? Why or why not?
Source: Hall, pg. 242
#3 - Should wisdom be studied scientifically or in a different manner? Do you think that wisdom is something that can be studied and analyzed? Why or why not?
Source: Hall, pgs. 242-243
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Cocchiola - Question Forum 4
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I think scientists are missing a key point with the beeper study. Of course older people are going to be more even keeled than younger people. Older people are retired, typically have money, and have less to worry about. Younger people have families, the pressure of jobs, and are much busier. Did the scientists even take this into consideration? It doesn't sound like it was a factor, but this study pretty much states the obvious for me. p. 237-38
What if wisdom was looked at as an innate quality, that can be changed by life experiences? I feel like these scientists are looking to deep into the concept of wisdom, and they're trying to measure something that measures differently in every human being.
Shouldn't wisdom be considered as more of a philosophical attribute rather than something biological?
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1. Can people have wisdome without having a formal education?
2. Based on the readings, wisdom seems to be a characteristic assosicated with people over the age of sixty. Can some one younger, perhaps a person in his or her twenties, be considered wise? Why or why not?
3. Do you think some one that has wisdom is necessarily an expert in something? Why or why not?
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Jessica Watahovich -Question Forum 4
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Apr 1 2009, 9:00 PM EDT by
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I don't think that there will ever be a clear definition of wisdom, so what is the point of studying it? should we focus our money on more concrete research such as Alzheimers?
The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis p.243
Is wisdom a genetic trait like many other personality traits? If we study the genetic factor of wisdom will we find more concrete information?
The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis p. 242
Is it really good for us to study something as abstract as wisdom? why do we need to define it? why can't we just keep it abstract rather than incorrectly defining it? (i.e. heaven)
If we discovered the biological aspect of wisdom, would it do us more harm than good? For example, what if we were able to manipulate the "wisdom gene," would we really want to be able to do that? would wisdom be as revered if we could control it?
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3) I've known some pretty bitter old people. Some very bitter old people, actually. According to the definitions of wisdom presented in this artical, this bitterness means that they are not wise. Does this bitterness mean that these older people are not wise?
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1) It seems that wisdom is at least somewhat defined by these psychologists as a persons ability to "bounce back" or their ability to look at positive aspects of situations. What is the difference between wisdom and optimism?
2) In one experiment, an older woman was given a stressful math problem. She was an older woman, and she said she was about to cry after the mediator kept saying "Error" after each failure she made. At teh end of the experiment, she gave a high rating on "happiness." The psychologist claimed that this means the older woman was able to bounce back emotionally from despair. Isn't this a flawed experiment? Maybe the woman is just happy that the mediator can't hastle her anymore.
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