Week 3!

How Good Is Your Memory?

I've always known that I didn't have the best memory. For whatever reason, I am just terrible at remembering what happens in movies. It doesn't matter how long ago I watched it, whether it be last week or 5 years ago or even how much I enjoyed it; you could ask me about any movie and there won't be a single one that I can actually remember the plot line for. But on the other hand, I'm easily able to remember something like names of ions or vocabulary terms, so I get pretty excited when a test or quiz is all simple memorization. 

Most of the tests I took, like the test asking me to press the space bar key whenever a picture of an animal was repeated, told me I had about an average memory. This was the same for the one that asked me to memorize 12 words and restate them to test my short term memory. I took the this test twice and could got 7 out of 12 words both times, even though they were the same words (which is a little sad in my opinion.) However, upon taking the "memory for faces" test I didn't too well, as I could only identify 3 out of 10 correct features on the displayed face.

I think that the validity of the test that evaluated my ability to remember faces was pretty accurate, because I realized I can meet people multiple times and still be completely unable to picture their face in my head. As for the words and pictures memory tests, I don't think they are that accurate in measuring people's overall short term memory because some people can remember pictures better than words, or vice versa. I guess everyone's brain is just wired a little differently.

I saw this study stating that smelling rose, or another subtle smell, while sleeping could help children learn better. Honestly, I'm down for that to be true because if I can do better in school by just having a rose by my pillow at night that would be great.

Post Number Two!!

Politics and Personality Quizzes

Political Compass: This quiz asked me a lot of questions I never really thought about, like whether or not land is a commodity that we should be buying or selling. Many were issues regarding how we as individuals perceive economics, class, sex, society, and large businesses. There were questions that I didn’t understand, and it made me realize all the different issues that are debated in presidential elections. According to the quiz, I am a liberal leftish. I share the same views as Ghandi, who believed in the value of each individual.

Political Typeology: The next quiz asks me to choose between statements on what I felt were better ways to run the government and how society should view different people. It made me really think about whether the current government was doing more harm that good, regarding things like environmental laws and poverty. The quiz told me that I best fit with the “Disaffected Democrats,” which leans towards the Democratic Party. This isn’t really surprising, as I knew that I definitely didn’t agree with many of the Republican Party’s views.

ISideWith: The last quiz asked me a variety of questions to determine who I should vote for in the 2020 Presidential election. Like the Political Compass quiz, I was asked about topics that I’d never thought about before like constitutional rights for foreign terrorism suspects or rights for illegal immigrants. There were also things that I had never heard of before, such as Al-Qaeda or the Paris Climate Agreement, that I feel I should know about to some extent as a citizen of the US. When I was asked which candidate I would vote for in the House of Representatives and Senate Election, I unfortunately didn’t recognize a single name. My results were a long list of democrats that were concerned with environmentalism, compassion, humility, and communication. Now that I think about it, this isn’t surprising either since they share some of the things I care about.

To wrap it up, these tests made me realize I really don’t know much politically, and someone like me should become more educated before being allowed to vote. Throughout these quizzes, I feel like I answered these questions similar to how the majority of Gen Z would, as our generation tends to be more open minded than the older generations about things like abortion or same sex marriage. However, as a minor that lives under my parent’s roof, I don’t pay taxes, work a full time job, or anything like that. So I never really paid much attention to politics since I felt that a lot of the issues discussed don’t directly affect me very much. As I get older, I’d want to understand more about politics, but as of now there are more immediate concerns for me more. Honestly I’m more worried about adhering to my parent’s rules right now than those in the real world, so I will keep out of politics for the most part just to abstain from getting into heated arguments with my peers.