An Outsider's Opinion

This past week, I was absent from class and given the assignment to discuss our case studies with a student that was not in our Paideia class. I chose to speak with someone who is a biology major and got an interesting response from them on these case studies. For the most part, she and I agreed on how we would try to solve these issues, but she seemed to struggle slightly more to give a definitive answer.

As a whole, she seemed to take a much more scientific and data driven approach to solving this issues. As we moved from one question to the next, she seemed frustrated by how difficult they were to answer. Then, after hearing the question, she would often say that her answer would depend on so many factors that she didn't know how to respond, such as who the individual was in the story, what her role was at the school, and other pieces of background information. At one point, when discussing a case study that involved test scores, she essentially threw out the question because no numbers for these test scores were discussed and, therefore, the question was not valid! It was good to see a similar point of view, but also interesting to see how our way of thinking differed!