Monday, March 28, 2011

Superpower Survey

Dear Phase II students, Hopefully you found this weekend's "superpower" mini-survey homework assignment to be informative and exciting. For your homework tonight (Monday, 3/28/11), please use the 'Comment' function at the bottom of this post to answer two (2) of the following four questions:


1. What was the most interesting thing you learned from conducting your mini-survey? Did people's answers surprise or shock you in any way? If so, how?

2. Based on the people you talked to, and on the responses your classmates collected, did you notice any patterns in the information you found? For example, did all (or most) Americans choose to have the same (or similar) superpower? Did all (or most) women choose a similar power? What about all men? etc, etc

3. Do you think the superpower you chose in class on Friday/Monday shows or reflects anything unique about your personality? Why or why not?

4. In general, do you think the ways in which people responded to you and your classmates -- i.e., what superpowers they chose -- shows or reflects anything unique about their personalities? Why or why not? Can you think of any examples of this?


Please post your answers BEFORE the beginning of class on Wednesday, March 30. As always, I look forward to reading what you write!

8 comments:

  1. 3.- Could be, but i don't think that always has to reflect something about you or your personality.
    4.- yes maybe you can apreciate some clues about his/her personality, for example, if someone wants to know what are you thinking maybe this person is curious.

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  2. the most interesting for me it is that some people want to talk to God and hope to go to heanven. that's because they are christian. this is their patterns. and i learn to my surprise most of the students hope they can remember all things in a short time or they are eager to get full grade. i think this is the personality for students. then, i want to go anywhere anytime without pubilc transation. because i like travalling and i hate traffic jam and take lots of time at the flight. in class, chi said he wanted to control money. i think it is because he likes money and he thinks money is the most important thing in his life.

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  3. in my survey, i think x-ray eyes is the most interesting thing for me. they want to see everything without covering. then, i think the superpower that men want to have is useless. they just like something funny. compare to boys, girls more like getting good grade in study or in study. i like to have the ability to control all money of the world, because i love money and money is important in life. it is my personality. i agree some people choose a superpower that can learn everything fast, because they are lazy. at least, there is a little bit connection.

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  4. I think the most interesting thing in my survey is some people has no reason why they chose this power. For example, one of my friend said, he wants be a flyman. Then I asked him, why? he said, because it will be awesome. I think that such not a reason. I didn't suprised about their answers, because I watched a lot of TV shows about superpower, so I knew every powers. I think American prefer to be invisible, and women prefer to read people's mind. I want to be teleporting, it is relate to my personality. Because I care about family and friends, and I hate lonely, so I want this power for change the place easily for visit my family and friends. So I agree the choosing of superpower is relate the personality of this people. For example, some of my female friends chose mind reading, there is because they care about how does other people think about them.

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  5. i think in my survey, some one want to see ghost. he side he want to talk with them, i don't know why. i think if they are busy, not enough time to do something. they want time control. so i think most of people want superpower for themself. i found a lot of Americans they want invisible. that makes me surprised. I asked the woman like the ability of some of fantasy, like flying or using magic. yes, that can show our personality. like they want time control, so their greads can get A. becouse they always think not enough time to review. so thwy want to time control. i think when they awaner me question, they still thinking, what they need most now. like when i ake a stutend he came to class late, he tell me he want teleport. he can go anywhere fast. that is good for him now. so i think they always thinking what they need most now.

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  6. 1.The interesting thing for me is that one of my friend choice to change size of body. I feel interesting is that i think change size of body doesn't need any superpower. Expect change size of body like big or small, tall or short. 3. Yes, because i think if i like the freedom i will choose fly. Because i can go anywhere.

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  7. For me ,the most interesting thing is some people want to become invisiable, because they can do anything or go anywhere they want without use money. I have a firend said,he want to read other people's mind, so he can control the business and have a lot money. That is really surprise me, i like this superpower and it's good for my future. I chose if i want to something, that will be appear before my eyes. Because sometimes i like beautiful close, shose, and adornments,but i do not want to work. that is my personality.

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  8. The most interesting thing I learned form the mini-survey is that one of my female friend wants to have a super power like she can change her appearance. It is not because she wants to be another people for a while, it is because she do not want to spend a long time to make up in the morning. she hope she can be beautiful without making up by changing her appearance. In addition, I am pretty sure that the super power I chosed shows my personality. I chose reding people's mind as my super power, because I hate people lie to me and I think I am foolish if people lied to me and I did not notice that. And, I do not want people fool me around. If I can read people's mind, I will be more smart, and I will know the turth. It helps me to make every decisions without thinking a lot and feel headache.

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