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SPECIALIZATION & GENERALIZATION

10/23/2023

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TOK Talk · Specialization vs. Generalization: 2024 TOK Essay Title 2
May 2024 TOK Essay Title 2: How can we reconcile the opposing demands for specialization and generalization in the production of knowledge? Discuss with reference to mathematics and one other area of knowledge. 

This is a tough one that requires some confidence to write about examples with confidence in mathematics. A good investigation would offer an exploration of ways that the demands are reconciled. Why do the demands oppose? Are they really opposing demands? Why do we need both specialization and generalization? If one way to reconcile these demands is to create systems and improve communication within and across knowledge communities, what does this actually look like in the real world? Are we (knowledge communities) actually able to reconcile these demands?
Link from our discussion: 
Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize Problems: https://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems/

Guest: Martin Brown
Music: random sounds that could be so much better. Do you have music you'd like featured? Please contact me through the form at www.TOKTalk.org
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2023 Essay Title 5: Visual Representations

10/25/2022

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TOK Talk · Visual Representations: 2023 TOK Essay Title 5
Today I enjoyed tea and talked some TOK with Kevin Hoye (IB English Literature and TOK Teacher) about 2023 TOK Essay Title 5: Are visual representations always helpful in the communication of knowledge? Discuss with reference to the human sciences and mathematics. We talked a lot about different ways into understanding this question, beginning with ∞ 

​Links:
  • The Mathematical Art Of M.C. Escher | Video | Abakcus
  • A Summary of Modern Cosmology
  • A New Way to See Art - The Atlantic​

Thank you to the random street Shanghai musician, once again for the music bringing us in and out of this track.
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2023 Essay Title 1: Replicability

10/25/2022

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TOK Talk · Replicability: 2023 TOK Essay Title 1
In this episode, I sat down with Donna Gee (IB Design Technology Teacher) and Michael Stewart (IB Psychology and TOK Teacher) to unpack and wrestle with 2023 TOK Essay Title 1: Is replicability necessary in the production of knowledge? Discuss with reference to two areas of knowledge.

​We had a rich discussion which I hope you’ll find insightful into the role and relevance of replicability in different Areas of Knowledge. 


Links:
  • Science has been in a “replication crisis” for a decade. Have we learned anything? - Vox
  • Why Most Published Research Findings Are False | PLOS Medicine
  • There is no replication crisis in science. It's the base rate fallacy. - Big Think        
  • Statistical P-hacking explained - World Editors Forum 
  • Publication bias - Catalog of Bias (University of Oxford)
  • Accidental discovery of teflon - The History of Teflon™ Fluoropolymers
  • Maurizio Cattelan's 'Comedian,' Explained: Here's Everything We Published on the Viral Banana Art, All in One Place
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Statistics conceal as much as they reveal

12/20/2020

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TOK Talk · Episode 7: Statistics Conceal as much as the Reveal
Today we delve into the world of Statistics, and unpack how it can be a tool that can both reveal and conceal. To help me with this complicated question, I’ve asked some well-informed people to help me unpack this year’s TOK Essay Title 4: “Statistics conceal as much as they reveal”
Here with me today are Ms. Zehra Baig, Statistics teacher, Mr. Martin  Brown, Mathematics teacher and Ms. Virginia Voigt, Psychology teacher. We discuss:
  • What is “Statistics”? Why is Statistics such a powerful tool (is it?)
  • How might Statistics be a tool for Revealing? Concealing? (in different areas of knowledge)
  • What are some examples of statistics that reveal or conceal in your discipline?
  • Why does it matter?

Music Credit: The Plastic Daizi Collective, 2015
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