By: Desmond Adewakun

       In my research it states that a Confirmation bias is basically information that backs up your existing beliefs. The research sources reflects my topic about being Pro vaccine or against it because it helps explains how people make decision due to cognitive bias and errors. Framing effect is a big part of everyday life because there is an arguement to be made that people are having about getting the vaccine and not getting the vaccine due to the positives and negatives effects it has on people who gets it or not . Many people in the world believe getting the vaccine is the only smart way of not contracting covid. These four annotations that I plan to use in my infographic explains how Cognitive errors and biases   1)  Always look at the opposite point of view because there is a lot of negatives in getting the vaccine. 2) Most people who gets the vaccine and still ends up with covid normally blames other people when it goes wrong.  3) Only paying attention to information that confirms your beliefs when it comes down to. 4) People make their decision based on whether or not they should get vaccinated based off pure pressure and emotion of what their hearing about the vaccine. Many people in the world believe getting the vaccine is the only smart way of not contracting covid .

My first biases “Always look at the opposite point of view because there is a lot of negative in getting the vaccine” relates to my topic because my research source states that their is a lot of side effects that comes with getting vaccinated that people need to be aware of. For example, even if you end up getting the vaccine you can still end up with Covid but you will have less chance at dying due to you receiving the vaccine. Another side effect in getting vaccinated are Difficulty breathing, swelling of your face and lungs, rapid heartbeats, a bad rash all over your body, dizziness and weakness, and allergic reaction are all experiences you can have in getting vaccinated and it can also impact you on a daily basic. My second biases “Most people who gets the vaccine and still ends up with covid normally blames other people like the doctors when it goes wrong. “relates to my topic because even when your vaccinated you can still contract symptoms by going out without a mask, by not limiting your time out, not washing your when you touch things, especially not being socially distant all of those things allows you to still contract covid while still being vaccinated. Then when that happens normally people tend to assume its because of the vaccine that the doctors gave them to still end up getting it  

My Third biases “People only paying attention to information that confirms your beliefs when it comes down to whether or not you get the vaccine.” relates to my topic because for instance those who have a belief in getting the vaccine is good for you often gets it because of either what they read about the vaccine or the positive effects they hear about the vaccine and when people have a belief in not getting the vaccine will most likely not get it as well but it always depends on what you hear or experience. My Fourth biases “People make their decision based on whether or not they should get vaccinated based off pure pressure and emotion of what their hearing about the vaccine “relates to my topic because people who are normally not vaccinated gets pure pressed with emotion to take the vaccine by either what they hear on the news or by their peers that persuades them to take it without actually believing in your own beliefs.

https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/fulltext/2003/08000/the_importance_of_cognitive_errors_in_diagnosis.3.aspx

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effectiveness/why-measure-effectiveness/breakthrough-cases.html

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-08-11-21/index.html

My Annotated Infographic:

https://create.piktochart.com/output/56491223-my-annotated-infographic 

By: Desmond Adewakun
     In my research it informs you that Cognitive errors and Cognitive Biases is a part of every day life as a whole. Confirmation bias is favoring information that conforms with your pre-existing beliefs Cognitive biases with BLM is how some police officers handle certain situations. Black lives Matter became a saying to a global phenomenon. My sources states that an example of  heuristic biases is how the police make lack luster decisions to shoot people without being aware of their decision and consequences of shooting innocent blacks whenever they want to. My 3-4 sources that I plan to put in Annotated Bibliography reflects my topic because Their is a argument to be made about people being Pro-BLM and against BLM as well as the way blacks are being treatment differently because they demand equality. Police officers always responded with backlash . 

 My research source reflects the argument because their are people out their who support BLM because It explains the reasons why people are standing for BLM because they want equality and change, and most likely the only way to impact change by people’s perspective was to make their voices heard around the world through protests and through plenty of platforms like twitter, Instagram, snapchat, and etc.  Another reason is the miss use of Guns in our community on a daily bases.  BLM made us all look at our lives in a very new perspective including to never take life for granted because you never know when your time is up. It was very unique to how people around the world became of any race become leaders and did anything to find other ways to voice themselves for the people that are children, Teenagers, and Adults who is getting treated unfairly and harrased everyday without any justice being served . Also, their are people in the world who are against BLM and disagrees with most of the things that is going on.

My source reflects my other argument and topic because their are also people who believe BLM is a bad thing in our community because it makes others feel like it only focuses on only blacks. Those others beliefs are really based off emotion and the attention that blacks get across the world with this movement affects people who are against BLM.

My research sources reflects my other argument about equality because it explains how the protests and fight for change made the judge officials  finally make changes to some of the laws due to the number of deaths to blacks in the country. For instance the protest allowed George Floyd’s Family to finally receiving the justice he so richly deserves. Multiple people used various ways like protesting, rioting, making posters, drawing murals, Flyers to stand up to miss use of harassments and gun violence’s by several police departments of many states across the world. Also by doing that it will hold police officers accountable of their actions and it made them realize that violence is not the solution to all problems. Even other organizations like NBA, NFL, and NASCAR racing created ways to make an impact such as justice reforms on the back of their jerseys and even kneeling down to the national before the games begin, as well as shutting down games to focus on the outside world. It kind of felt like a distraction to the task at hand of getting the world back to normal. With that being said the BLM protest opened up the door for people to even have the courage to vote and use their voices for change in the world at large. For instance, that helps the landscape of politics change drastically. Finally, People these days now see black lives matter not only as a movement but a way of live for all races no matter of color.

Lastly, I want to express the the level of ease and/or difficulty I’m experiencing with compressing the source’s context into the precise three-sentence annotation required for each source. It was really difficult at first compressing the source’s context into the precise three-sentence annotation because I didn’t know what source context i was going to use and get it from but it became easy when I had found my sources because it help me have something to reflect back on when I’m finishing my 3 sentence annotation. At the end I’m happy that I went through those hurdles of gaining sources because I would have a trouble explaining things in detail  

Sources:

https://disaster-sts-network.org/sites/default/files/artifacts/media/pdf/ransbyb_making_all_black_lives_matter_-_barbara_ransby.pdf

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/cognitive-bias

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/26/us/black-lives-matter-explainer-trnd/index.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/cognitive-bias/565775/