Sharks are cool blog

Diving With Sharks! ... almost During our virtual reality experience at the Addlestone Library our class went diving with sharks. The videos featured various species of sharks including hammerhead sharks, nurse sharks, and great white sharks. These sharks were shown in various ways for each video. In the video that featured the great white sharks, we were viewing the shark from within the cage. By being inside of a cage instead of free diving implies that this species of shark is stronger and more dangerous than the other species of sharks we saw. In the Mythbusters shark video, you out in the open on an artificial reef surrounded by thirty or so sharks. The sharks would swim pretty much right up to you but never harm you. I believe these various videos were chosen because it shows the two ways sharks can be viewed; viscous, strong, and dangerous or predators who would rather avoid humans and not attack. Image from title photo from the video "These Shark Cage-Dive...

Human Biases Humans, without knowing it, often have bias over some animal species vs others such as having bias over a dog instead of a coyote. There are four different types of bias; availability heuristic, confirmation bias, believability bias, and framing effect. Availability heuristic, or availability bias, is the tendency to have something immediately come to mind when viewing or talking about something in specific. Belief bias is the tendency to judge an argument based on how believable it is instead of the actual facts. Confirmation bias is the tendency to interpret information that supports their beliefs and reject any information that may contradict or disprove it. Framing Effect is drawing different conclusions based on how the same information is presented.   Great White Shark, photographed by Jim Abernethy, Nat Geo What is the first thing that comes to mind when you see this picture? Do you think of negative or positive adjectives? When people think of...