Sequence OR Balance
Respond to ONE of the following discussion prompts:
- Look at the series of images of Ai Weiwei in Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1.5.14). Consider the sequence of images in this series. Can the sequence be reordered? If not, why not? What do these images say about the relationship between contemporary Chinese society and ancient Chinese history?
OR - The principles of radial, symmetrical, and asymmetrical balance can be used to communicate different ideas. Find three artworks (other than those illustrated in this chapter), one each for radial, asymmetrical, and symmetrical balance. For each work, discuss why the artist might have chosen that particular type of balance and what ideas it communicates.
Sample Solution
advocates stated that the reason no scientific studies could record and consistent data proving precognitions reality is because it is a “random phenomenon”. With precognition being random, it leaves it in a completely unfalsifiable state by any sort of controlled scientific testing. No matter how much data can be collected that goes against the existence of precognition, this data will always be claimed to be inaccurate by precognitions proponents making any attempts to disprove it pointless. Due to precognitions elusive nature, there would need to be a way to test precognition which accounted for its random nature. The solution to this was to use Sequential Forced-Choice Precognition Tasks with five stimuli. Once the data is collected statistics must be used in order to separate the precognitive patterns from the random ones. This is known as accounting for Bayesian Inference. This is an alternative means of gathering data. Normally data is collected using frequentist statistics. This calculates how likely something is to happen through a long running experiment. This is why when experiments are done the same conditions are maintained to maintain a certain outcome. With Bayesian Statistics probabilities are applied in order to account for differences found in new data. However, for scientific experiments control and consistency are necessary to collect data is accurate. This ensures that if a certain experiment is repeated by someone else the data can be compared evenly leaving no room for error. Even with these changes made to how testing for precognition was done, this was still not enough to find supporting evidence of precognition. Parapsychologists will do everything in their power to ensure that null results in various experiments are not proof that the phenomenon does not exist. Richard Wiseman explores this issue in his epilogue in the book “Debating Psychic Experience: Human Potential or Human Illusion?”. He feels that time is running out for parapsychological research as after over a hundred years of research there is still no unequivocal proof of psi. For some reason parapsychology research has not been stopped by the endless null findings. Most hypotheses with null results are thrown to the side relatively quickly, however when null results were>
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