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Post #1                         Assignment #1 Paranormal and Pseudoscience

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Post #1                         Assignment #1 Paranormal and Pseudoscience

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A padlet created by Lindsay Penney

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Definition: The red flag, "appeal to authority" is when, typically a product, uses some form of support from someone who may be perceived as an "authority" to endorse their claims. For example, when marketing advertisements uses people in white lab coats, or possible celebrity endorsement. Essentially they use people, or figures to validate their claims, therefore causing the general public to assume they must be true.

Connection: The picture that I chose connects to appeal to authority because it shows Eva Longoria with these beautiful full long eyelashes. The ad claims to say that you get 3 times thicker lashes when using the mascara. This is a clear appeal to authority example. Seeings Eva's lashes and the claims the mascaras company makes you assume that it has to be true. Eva must be wearing said mascara and look at her lashes, you are tricked into think that if you buy this mascara your lashes will look like Eva's, which sadly, is not always the case.

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Definition: Confirmation bias is essentially being biased when interpreting information and connecting it to ones own beliefs. Essentially ignoring facts and only seeing things on how they want to see it because it validates their beliefs.

Connection: The picture I picked is of a full moon. When people put blame on a full moon for certain outcomes, it is an example of confirmation biased. For example, in a hospital emergency room, it could be very busy one night, the nurses say it is because it is a full moon out, and that its only ever this busy when there is a full moon. However, this is confirmation bias, they are linking the amount of incidents on the full moon, when in fact it could be just as busy next week when it is not a full moon.  The above average number of people coming in that day is due to many other things such a weather conditions, time of year, luck etc, and not  because of their belief of the full moon effect.

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Definition: Red herring is irrelevant information added into a story, or topic, typically used to distract you, or mislead you from the real truth or problem.

Connection: In this short clip from Family Guy, it is an example of a red herring. A question was asked by a possible voter, the question however, was never answered, instead the Mayor rambled on with irrelevant information, completely distracting the whole audience from the originally question. In this example, the question can be classified as an important question, and the answer was probably not something the audience wanted to hear, so instead the mayor deterred them from the question with other irrelevant information.

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Definition: Used to describe the spiritual feeling, or "energy" one feels when dealing with "new age practitioners" or natural healers.

Connection: The image below says "natural forces within us are the true healers of disease". I connect this so Mystical Energy because essentially that is the belief for most spiritual healers, that the energy within you, or even around you is what can "cure" you.

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Definition: A lot of companies will promote products as "All Natural", they try to promote their product as being safer, or better then other leading products since they claim it to be "all natural".  That being said, just because it is natural, does not mean it is safe.

Connection: Here is a picture of some poison plants.  All of these plants are natural, they grows in the wild freely. It is a good example of something that can be classified as "All Natural" yet they are harmful.

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Definition: The belief of knowing something is not true, but not being able to explain it.

Connection: The video is of a magician doing one of his magic tricks. We know magic is not real, so therefore it cannot actually be "magic", however we do not know how the trick is actually done. Therefore being related to the unexplained belief.

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Jamie Raven's incredible magic moment | Semi-Final 3 | Britain's Got Talent 2015

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See more from Britain's Got Talent at http://itv.com/talent Jamie achieved the impossible in his audition - he made Simon believe in magic! He's got a few more tricks up his sleeve, but can he pull a place in the final out of the bag? SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/BGTsub Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BGT Twitter: http://twitter.com/BGT

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Definition: People belief what they "see". but that does not always mean it is the truth.  What you see can be skewed from past experiences, what you perhaps want or wanted to see.  You cannot always believe your senses.

Connection: The image below is of a car accident.  When gathering eye witness accounts they all can possibly vary on what actually happened, this is because of the perception and observation belief. Multiple people could witness the same accident, all recalling it to have happened differently.

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Definition: Our brains naturally look for patterns, or familiar things when looking at objects. it is the reason why we see faces or shapes in objects when they are not actually there.

Connection: This video explains pareidolia, which is the phenomena of our brain seeing faces in objects. It is an example of patternicity.