Thursday, April 20, 2006
incompetent fools
sighz, i really do believe in what i'm studying about now - the bystander effect and responsibility diffusion. my grpmates for entrepreneurial mktg has juz totally proven these 2 theories rite.
these theories first came about when a very startling case happened in New York in the '60s. this woman was returning home from work at 3am and walking toward her apartment when a man stabbed her. she screamed for helped and awoke many neighbours who came to their windows. one witness shouted "let that girl alone". the man retreated to across the street, but no one appeared to help the woman. so he again stabbed the woman and even raped her for about half an hour while 38 witnesses looked on from their windows. finally someone called the cops but when they arrived, she was oredi dead.
apparently, with more people around, people are less likely to help as everyone thinks that the other will help and responsibility is diffused among the crowd, causing everyone to become merely a bystander.
this happens in grp work too. i juz cant understand! today was the deadline for our mktg plan, yet nobody cared or even bothered to find out how it was coming along. this was a 8person team btw... i was the only one who edited the report n blahblah, when this is only a pass/fail module for me. at the last hour, i left the final report online n asked the grp leader to submit it but he uploaded the wrong, backdated copy for the prof. like, wat a dumb mistake! i cant believe it. really... if this is the standard of nus, no wonder smu has full employment rates.
but i shall try not to make the fundamental attribution error, n try to give them the benefit of doubt. maybe they are all mugging so hard for exams that they forgot about this mktg plan?
wat the heck, i'm mugging too.
~~~ Angela 12:26 AM
