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Pragmatism- just how pragmatic are you?
A series of question to test your pragmatic thinking.Slide2
The Game: Rules and Objectives
In this quiz you will be presented with a series of questions and answers that you will have to think
through
and pick one of multiple
answers
that are presented.
Answer each question as if it was occurring in your life– do not pick the choice that you THINK the games wants.
At the end of the experience you will tally up your points (presented after each answer) and be ranked as to how pragmatic you are and how this worldview effects your choices through your life.Slide3
LETS BEGIN!Slide4
You are sitting in a lecture hall and you need to take notes. Alas, you do not have a pencil on your person. What to you do?
Ask around, maybe someone near you has one that you can borrow.
Don’t take notes.
Record the lecture, you can take notes later when you have time.Slide5
3 Points
Please
click the number to continueSlide6
2
Points
Please
click the number to continueSlide7
1
Point
Please
click the number to continueSlide8
Your headlights go out when you are driving home from a friend’s house. What do you do?
Keep driving, hopefully you can make it home safely.
Pull of to the side of the road and call a friend, you can leave your car here until the morning.
Turn back, your friends house is closer then yours and you can stay there till morning.Slide9
3 PointsSlide10
2
PointsSlide11
1
PointSlide12
Your card declines at the grocery store and you don’t know why but you do know your checking account is empty. Everything that you are buying you NEED (food and home supplies). What do you do?
Write a check, you need the stuff and you will just have to deal with the bounced check later.
Call your parents, maybe they can spot you.
Ask a friend for help.Slide13
3 PointsSlide14
2
PointsSlide15
1
PointSlide16
Your basement floods. You know that if you do not get a professional clean up crew that there is a high chance of
mold and
you have lost a lot of property to water damage
and want a reimbursement. But there is no way you can afford
your rates going up. What do you do?
Call a cleaning company and see if they think you can do it on your own.
Just file a claim and pray your rates stay the same.
Pay for a cleaning crew out of pocket- you have to put it on the credit card but at least you know your rates will stay the same.Slide17
3 PointsSlide18
2
PointsSlide19
1
PointSlide20
Whe
n your partner is away on a business trip you
binge watch a show on Netflix that you
two
always watch together. When they return they want to watch the season with you like usual, what do you do?
Tell them that you already watched the show
Watch the show and pretend you have not seen it- you don’t want them to know you watched it when they were away!Slide21
3 PointsSlide22
2
PointsSlide23
1
PointSlide24
Your cat is sick in the middle of the night and you don’t know what’s wrong. What do you do?
Stay awake and watch to see if she gets better- if not, you’re going to the late night vet.
Go to bed and wait till morning, she is most likely fine and you don’t want to pay extra for a late night vet.
Rush her to the late night vet!Slide25
3 PointsSlide26
2
PointsSlide27
1
PointSlide28
How many points did you have?
11
-19
20
-28
29
-33Slide29
You’re very pragmatic…
A pragmatic person is sensible, grounded, and
practical
.
You go through your life analyzing your issues and current problems in
a reasonable and logical way instead of depending
on whims and wishes. This act of both contemplating the cause and the effect
of your choices enables you to move through life while eluding problems that form from rash, split second, choices.
ContinueSlide30
You’re sort of pragmatic…
In some situations you thought of both the cause and effect of your choices- thinking through your choices and contemplating how they would help you with the problem you were facing.
This helps you to avoid negative consequences or unforeseen circumstances that arise from
on a whim actions.
However
, certain instances were met with split second
conclusions and the later effect of these choices are unknown…Slide31
You’re not very pragmatic…
In most situations you acted in split second decisions without thinking about a specific end you were trying to reach
. This means that many aftereffects you will encounter could be negative or simply unexpected. You do not function on what is logical but on what you think is right or what pleases you- living
very much in the moment and unaware of the future.Slide32
The pragmatic world view
Within the pragmatic worldview, individuals try to make the best choices to fulfill their current needs. This quiz was designed to make you think pragmatically- asking what was the best choice, in your opinion, in that moment.
This world view focuses on the idea that there are multiple paths to multiple ends. It is by making choices and journeying through the consequences that individuals draw meaning from their lives.
Therefore, though this quiz has given you a relative score on how “pragmatic” you are there are many choices to many ends and no one person’s choice or opinion is above another's.Slide33
You are stranded on an island and are aloud to bring one item, what do you bring?
Water- you can go a long time without food but you can not survive without liquids.
Your phone, lets face it you can not survive without that.
A knife, there isn’t much you can’t accomplish with this tool.Slide34
3 PointsSlide35
2
PointsSlide36
1
PointSlide37
You have a three page report due in three days. So, you…
Wait, you can pump it out in one sitting with no issues.
Split it up, take a page a day.
Work on it when you have time. Just make sure it’s done in time.Slide38
3 PointsSlide39
2
PointsSlide40
1
PointSlide41
You are very ill but finals are just around the corner. What do you do?
Go ahead to the doctor.
Suck it up, your most likely fine and don’t have time for any nonsense.
Set a limit on the number of days you go without help- if the illness continues past that point you will call a doctor.Slide42
3 PointsSlide43
2
PointsSlide44
1
PointSlide45
Think back to being a child… when you would eat lunch your mom probably used to tell you to wait 30 minutes before swimming upon threat that you would sink right to the bottom of the pool. What did you do?
Waited 15 minutes, I'm sure that’s long enough to make her happy.
Listened to mom… she’s always right.
Jumped in the pool! Slide46
3 PointsSlide47
2
PointsSlide48
1
PointSlide49
You are getting your first pet. You are very busy, hardly ever home, but you want something to tak
e care of. What animal do you choose?
Dog
Fish
CatSlide50
3 PointsSlide51
2
PointsSlide52
1
PointSlide53
Why does it matter?
It’s important to know how pragmatic you are because it’s important to understand your ability to make choices based on logic. When in certain situations one’s ability to make the right choices is very important.
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usiness ventures, career choices, life or death actions… there are many instances in life when your ability to make the RIGHT choice will be heavily weighted– it is in these situations that you need to know your ability to think and act rationally and pragmatically and to take the future into consideration instead of just the present.