Children's Drawings

In Class

During class, each of us were given a piece of paper with children's drawings on it. The drawings were divided into two categories - drawn by city children and farm children. Then, we were given the instructions to describe the characteristics of the two categories. After a short moment, Ms Jackson asked us to talk about what we wrote. Oddly enough, the students on the left side of the classroom talked about city and farm children whilst the students on the right side of the classroom talked about creative and non creative children. We then realized that the descriptions on our paper about the drawings we different.

I think it was interesting how we managed to describe the drawings without much difficulty although the class was given different categories. This reminds me of confirmation bias. As I believed what I was told on the paper, that the drawings were drawn by city and farm children, I was still able to find characteristics from the drawing to support my belief. All I saw was evidence that can confirm what I believe was true. This was caused by the idea of city and farm children drawings before I could make a judgment by myself of who had drawn the drawings. If I wasn't told that city and farm children had drawn those drawings, I might have drawn a different conclusion, possibly that creative and non creative children had drawn those drawings.