TOK Essay Lesson on Perception We experience the world around us through our senses. On first thought, we consider all our senses to be equally important. But from the survey done in class we can notice it isnt.

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TOK Essay – Lesson on Perception

We experience the world around us through our senses. On first thought, we consider all our senses to be equally important. But from the survey done in class we can notice it isn’t.

From the data it is evident that 78.6% of the people believe that sight is the most important sense. This is probably because we enjoy seeing everything around us and would find it difficult to live the rest of our lives in darkness. We could still find our way around and witness the spectacles the world has to offer.  While 21.4% of the students believe it to be second in importance.

One can place the sense of hearing at second because 8 out of 14 people believe it to be 2nd at importance while 14.2% perceive it to be the most important. It can also be said that, though not the majority of the people agree to it but as compared to the other senses rated at number three it seems that people consider the sense of taste at the third most important. Also one can see that touch is the 4th most important but one can also see that as a cumulative score, 5 people believe it to be 1st,2nd or 3rd most important while only 4 believe it to be at 4th.  7 of the 14 students place smell at 5th while 7 people believe the sixth sense to be the least important.

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The data collected and the way it is represented, is an example to show how many a time statistics can be misinterpreted or manipulated to affect the affect it has on the viewer. This goes to show that statistics sometimes lie.  It is used as propaganda and to influence the reader and their thoughts. From the very data collected one can notice the following –

  1. Though 6 people place the sense of taste at 3rd, it is not the majority of the people. At the same time there are 7 others placing it at 4th and ...

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