Are western minds weird? An ongoing study, started in 2008 is highlighting a startling, but unsurprising statistic - that our idea of how humans see the themselves, the world and each other, is based on a very small, very wierd group of outliers within the larger global village.
6. The Average South African
• 25 - 34 yr
• Urban Black Female
• LSM 6
• Internet Access using Nokia Asha 210
• Buys airtime at Spaza Shop (R90 pm)
GMSA Africa Mobile Observatory Report 2012
Nielsen Insights 2011
AMPS 2010 – 2011
FGI Urban Commuter study 2011
8. Source: Service Design: From insight to Implementation
Quantitative Qualitative
100 people
10 People
10 truths 100 insights
9. Source: Service Design: From insight to Implementation
Quantitative Qualitative
Explain Understand
10. Qualitative Research.
User Interviews. Contextual Enquiry. Immersion.
Stakeholder Interviews. Ethnography. Cultural
Probes. Focus Groups. Competitive
Benchmarking.
11. Qualitative Research.
User Interviews. Contextual Enquiry. Immersion.
Stakeholder Interviews. Ethnography. Cultural
Probes. Focus Groups. Competitive
Benchmarking.
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13. Joe Henrich
Professor of Psychology and Economics, UBC
Steven Heine
Professor of Psychology, UBC
Ara Norenzayan
Social Psychologist, UBC
14. a 2008 survey
of the top six psychology journals
96%of the test subjects were Westerners
in psychological studies from 2003 to 2007
70% from the US
22. The Ultimatum Game
• 2 players
• Player A is given R100
For both to keep the money
• Player A has to sharen a portion
• Player B has to accept the offer
Put another way: 96 percent of human subjects in these studies came from countries that represent only 12 percent of the world’s population
The vertical axis gives the (PSE), ‘point of subjective equality’ , measures the amount that segment ‘a’ must be longer than ‘b’ before the two segments are judged equal in length. PSE measures the strength of the illusion
It’s not merely that the strength of the illusory effect varies across populations – the effect cannot be detected in two populations.
suggest that visual exposure during ontogeny to factors such as the “carpentered corners” of modern environments may favor certain optical calibrations and visual habits that create and perpetuate the illusion
23 small‐scale human societies, including foragers, horticulturalists, pastoralists, and subsistence farmers, drawn from Africa, Amazonia, Oceania, Siberia and New Guinea
small‐scale societies with only face‐to‐face interaction made low offers and did not reject.
the origins of agriculture and the rise of complex societies and expanding populations
required set of social norms for dealing with money and strangers
Community size positively predicts greater punishment (Henrich et al. n.d.).
The U.S. offers are nearly double that of the Hadza, foragers from Tanzania, and the Tsimane, forager‐horticulturalists from the Bolivian Amazon.
Before age 7 urban children reason about biological phenomena by analogy to, and by extension from, humans . stronger inference from humans to bugs than from bugs to bees
populations with greater familiarity with the natural world
make strong inferences from folkbiological knowledge that takes into account ecological context and relationships among species
populations with greater familiarity with the natural world
make strong inferences from folkbiological knowledge that takes into account ecological context and relationships among species
In data on spatial reference systems from 20 languages drawn from diverse societies—including foragers, horticulturalists, agriculturalists, and industrialized populations—only three languages relied on egocentric frames as their single preferred system of reference. All three were from industrialized populations: Japanese, English and Dutch
In data on spatial reference systems from 20 languages drawn from diverse societies—including foragers, horticulturalists, agriculturalists, and industrialized populations—only three languages relied on egocentric frames as their single preferred system of reference. All three were from industrialized populations: Japanese, English and Dutch
In data on spatial reference systems from 20 languages drawn from diverse societies—including foragers, horticulturalists, agriculturalists, and industrialized populations—only three languages relied on egocentric frames as their single preferred system of reference. All three were from industrialized populations: Japanese, English and Dutch
cultural differences almost everywhere they looked: in spatial reasoning, the way we infer the motivations of others, categorization, moral reasoning, the boundaries between the self and others, etc.