WWS 350 Lecture 2: 2.7.19 Lecture 2
7 Feb 2019
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Why more info can be of no help in making policy judgments. Why certain framings that have been proven scientifically wrong can still prevail. Picture of a woman (young girl or old lady, depending on how you look at it/what you focus on) Science is not enough in determining the correctness of a particular frame. You cannot focus on one image without losing focus on the other. Once you form habits of framing in one way, it is very hard to shift to another. Once you look at the old lady for a while, it is hard to go back to looking at the young girl. You can also pretend that you don"t see the other ways. Allowing other ways of framing and acknowledging them is the most fundamental principle of democratic policy-making. Japan was blamed a lot for logging the forests in malaysia. A 10-year-old boy from england wrote a letter to the prime minister of.
