Well, well, well... I guess my prophecies came to realize themselves after all considering the fact that the class mean was 63. As for decision making, its pretty hard to come up with a unanimous decision for 77 students without having someone take charge. As professor has stated previously (when we had a group project) sometimes natural leaders emerge, which is in my opinion exactly what happened yesterday. Some people were just more inclined to take charge and try to somewhat organize this exercise. As far as the decision itself, I think some people (not pointing any fingers) could have been a little more rational in their choices. Maybe I'm a utilitarian at heart, but I really think its unfair when an option has to be withheld just because ONE person out of 77 doesn't want to have an essay. The girl is the second row, don't know her name sorry, also opposed one of the choices but she clearly stated that if she is the only one she will comply with the rest of the class. When it comes to these type of decisions people need to understand that a compromise is in order. You're not the only one taking this test! We're all in the same boat, so if we all have to row, you better grab that oar and get to work. I understand that some people lack in writing skills, but don't forget, at least you can some what bullshit your way through on the essay and get credit for it.
P.S. Whoever came up with individualism view, was really thinking about themselves and totally contradicted their theory
The sad fact is that most people tend to be "too nice" in term of getting what they want while a dramatic small number of people held the desire to control and struggling usually get the attention though they may actually represent the minor view as whole. I am one of the accommodative decision maker because I do not want to waste my energy on the whole process, which I consider could have been avoided by simple present all options and organized voting process which we did at last.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the fact that a compromise would be the most effective way to handle this kind of situation. Many of the students in our class decided to use other approaches to try to reach an agreement. In the end, the whole class had to compromise and not everyone got what they exactly wanted. Its a give and take situation.
ReplyDeleteI think you are very right about being against 1 person slowing down the negotiation process, but at the same time we were all given a unanimous decision. Each and every person's choice was as important as the next, and no one could be cast away from the group. The decision making process was too slow because of this, and I believe we should have made it a majority vote
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