At a meeting of your swimming club, a vote will be taken as to whether you are all going to swim across a body of water. Last year, the club swam across Crystal Lake, a small lake. The majority votes to do the swim. If group polarization occurs, you would expect the group to decide to swim across ____.
a. the local creek
b. the local public pool
c. Crystal Lake
d. the Mississippi River
Question 2
When a group is making a decision, the option that is typically chosen is the one that is ____.
a. the best possible outcome for each member in the group
b. strongly supported by half of the group members and strongly opposed by the other half
c. presented first during the discussion
d. not strongly opposed by any of the group members
Swimming in a Mexican coral reef
In 1839 Mary Cragin, at the age of twenty-nine, became a convert to John Humphrey Noyes’s “communism
Physics of Swimming
Swimming Pool (Figure 3.1)