Thursday, December 10, 2009

Marriage in Black and White

In the United States there is a difference between the marriage statistics in black couples and white couples. The sats show that it is more likely for a white couple to get married and there are a higher percentage of whites already married than blacks. I dont think that there are any factors that cause this difference. Black and White are just colors. They are all people and the statistics just show the difference in skin color. Black people arent different from white people. It just so happens that they arent as likely to get married as white people.

Yesterday in class we were given 5 pennies. We gambled them in groups of two. My stragety was to just bet one penny each time and go on my gut (when choosing heads and tails.) Sometimes I would go against my gut feeing and then I would loose. I have always tried to go on those feelings in any situation because if you 2nd gess yourself then it will bite you in the butt. For example on a test. Once I lost we talked about peoples stragety. Some picked heads on time and tails the next-switching off. Some just picked heads, and some like me kinda choose randomly. This activity showed us that the wealth was unevenly spread because only 3 people ended up with 18 or more and almost half of us ended up withe 0!

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