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    Get an A in TOK Essay Title #1 Guide

    Thanks for checking out my channel and resources. You can do


    this!

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    will have a guide on my YouTube channel.

    Check out GetanAinTOK.com for my guides, examples, and sample


    outlines if you need help. Let’s Go!
    1. The Basic One: Do historians and human scientists have an
    ethical obligation to follow the directive: “do not ignore
    contradictory evidence”? Discuss with reference to history and
    the human sciences.

    Choose this if:


    • You want to find easy evidence
    • You want an easy organization
    • You don’t want to choose AOKs

    History
    • US Founding Fathers – “All men are created equal,” yet they
    owned slaves. Do we ignore this or not? This is usually ignored.
    Is this ethical or not?
    • Religion – be careful! You can treat holy texts of any religion
    academically, but don’t use your own faith as an aspect of the
    TOK essay. Religious response. Non-religious response. Think
    about this as a work of history, not as religion, and you’re fine.
    Islamic and Anti-Islamic responses.
    • There is a modern debate about the historic accuracy of the
    Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and historic records regarding
    king Darius. Religious response. Historic article. Article about
    Xerxes.
    • The Hitler Diaries – What happens when something greatly
    contradicts common and shared knowledge? A very easy (and
    popular) “yes” answer here.
    Human Sciences
    • The Mead-Freeman Controversy – two Human Scientists find
    contradictory evidence. What do we do with evidence that
    completely disagrees with the other?
    • Rat Park & Replication – We can think about contradictory
    evidence as a part of the replication crisis. What happens
    when big claims are made but can’t be backed up?
    • ManyLabs 2 – the warning flag in the replication crisis. It’s easy
    to go into a discussion on what we should do because of this.
    • Aliens! - The first two examples in this list of scientific
    controversies (not all are HS) talk about how ignoring
    contradicting evidence can cause us to assume that aliens are
    real!
    • Disagreement in Science – this article explores why people
    who are similarly educated in the sciences come to wildly
    diaerent conclusions about important and controversial
    issues.

    Important: Don’t just say that someone is ethically bound to do


    something. Also say what ethical framework applies to each answer
    that you provide. Here are some resources.
    Link 1
    Link 2
    Link 3

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