Do we see correctly?

We all assume that we perceive the world around us properly. We gather information, process that information and draw conclusions.

The problem is that no one is a ‘blank slate’, a clean piece of paper. Each one of us has a history of what we have seen and of ways of processing what we have seen. This history cannot but influence what we see and how we see things today. We take notice of things we have been taught to take notice of and ignore things we have never been urged to observe. We draw conclusions today based on models of the way we drew conclusions in the past.

That we do this is normal. In fact there is a whole new discipline with numerous books available that explore ‘cultural intelligence’. While normal it does have implications. Let’s look at an example of how it operates.

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