{"id":4,"date":"2019-01-09T01:22:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T01:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/wmertke\/?p=4"},"modified":"2019-01-09T13:58:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T13:58:03","slug":"heroes-what-they-are-and-what-they-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/wmertke\/2019\/01\/09\/heroes-what-they-are-and-what-they-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes Who They Are And What They Do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Overall, this reading was straightforward.  Goethals and Allison laid out their ideas about who a hero was to the public and then supported their views with logical reasoning and \u201cscientific\u201d studies. However, I don\u2019t agree with how they conducted one of their studies.  The authors asked a group of 75 people to rank heroes and villains on a scale from 1 to 10. In the studies, Goethals and Allison found that real villains ranked at a score of 3.9 while their fictional counterparts had a rating of 2.2.  They also found out that real heroes had a score of 7.8 while their fictional counterparts had a score of 8.7. (chart from chapter shown below)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The authors stated that “this average difference was unlikely to be due to chance or random variation” (35). I felt that this was a small sample size. After some research, my concerns were proven correct by this<\/a> website. \u00a0I made the following chart using the website\u2019s data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With a sample size of 75 participants, the error bounds would be about 11.5%. \u00a0While their conclusion that fictional characters are exaggerated in qualities to create an exciting story makes sense, their sample size makes their study nearly invalid. \u00a0This 11.5% error is enough to make the rankings of the heroes swap places (real: 8.7 vs. fiction: 7.7), meaning that real-life heroes can be ranked higher than their fictional counterparts. \u00a0This 11.5% error can also close the gap between the villain scores to make their qualities look less exaggerated in fiction (real: 3.45 vs. fiction 2.45). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe that if Goethals and Allison used a bigger sample size, they would be able to retain similar results still, but would increase their accuracy and credibility. \u00a0In turn, this would allow them to have a stronger claim with better data while maintaining their beliefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Overall, this reading was straightforward.  Goethals and Allison laid out their ideas about who a hero was to the public and then supported their views with logical reasoning and \u201cscientific\u201d studies. However, I don\u2019t agree with how they conducted one of their studies.  The authors asked a group of 75 people to rank heroes and … <\/p>\n

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