The concept I chose for this chapter was thromise. Thromise is a message that sounds like a promise (i.e., if you do x you will receive y) but operates like a threat because there is a penalty associated with noncompliance that may hurt the recipient. The recipient doesn't simply fail to receive a benefit.
Growing up I heard this concept a lot from parents, coaches, managers, and teachers. The example I want to share with everyone is when teachers give this incentive but give a harsh punishment towards the end. I remember a teacher for math (which was my worse subject) saying that if you got a grade that you didn't like on a quiz/test; its alright because it's just 10% to 20% of your grade, I have extra credit to boost those grades up. Little did I know that if anything was answered wrong or left blanked on the extra credit it would lower our test score. If I remember correctly the highest grade in the class was a B minus, I was just fortunate that I started figuring out to do well (at least a C or better) on the quiz/ test and I would be good. I ended the class with a low C which is still considered passing.
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Wow I cant believe your teacher did that to you, from my understanding extra credit can only start you from 0 and go up. I feel that to many people in the world use thromise these days, you can almost think of it as a person putting frosting on dogfood in a sense, here is this nice frosting to in which you think maybe a cake or cupcake below looms, but in turn its something completely the opposite that creates a false identity. Good Post!
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