For my group it was relatively easy to decide who would stay and who would go when it came to picking out people in this situation. The first thing we looked at was matching each woman we chose with a man in a somewhat similar age range, because after all the most important thing to decide was who would be able reproduce offspring successfully in the future. My group wanted adults in a 19-40 range, so older people (Ray Wilson, Wanda Brice, Fred Fredrick) were eliminated immediately.
Their former profession, as well, played a huge role in deciding a person's fate. Michelle Patterson, although with fair health and a perfect age, was only in retail sales. My group deemed her useless and she was then eliminated. John Davis at first seemed like an excellent person to keep in the group, being an experienced chemistry teacher, but my group members and I had to wonder if he really was the most important. We decided he wasn't worth keeping. Gerald White (army, construction) , Bill Waters (construction, technology), and Marjorie Blaylock (medical) were all kept for their professions.
When choosing who would stay the children became very important. Martha Gray was a person who didn't appear to be valuable, she was a college teacher with a degree in music, but once my group realized that her son William was extremely worth keeping it was decided that a woman and her son couldn't be separated. Our consciences leaned more towards keeping the Stanley's together as well, it's not as if my group was completely heartless. We still treated these names on the paper as actual humans. And James Stanley had 15 years experience of farming, which seemed perfect for the future in keeping these humans alive.
In the end, my group had two grown women (ages 25 and 39), three grown men (ages 43, 35, and 27), a teenage girl (age 13) and a young boy (age 8). All with relatively good health (Marjorie was the only one with "poor") and overall good IQ numbers.
- Hazel Cills
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It is interesting how you treated the names on the paper as actual humans. I remember considering age, health, profession, and gender in our decision, but not families. I am positive that the preexisting relationships among the people would be a critical factor in our conclusions if this was reality.
ReplyDelete- Tara Monihan
Being in the group, Hazel actually made me think about keeping the son. At first, I personally believed that the son would be no use. However, as she pointed out in our class discussion, the father would be devastated and would have nothing to live for. Also, the son is young and can become strong as an adult. The whole reproducing idea is crucial when trying to start a WHOLE population again. You need to have decent aged people in order to do so. Even though the older choices were smart in certain fields, they have a high risk of dying and, most likely, wont reproduce with someone else. That is why we stuck with the younger adults.
ReplyDelete-Kyle R.