Provided by Victoria Lidzbarski.
- Who would like to volunteer to give us a quick summary of the main points of this article?
- What are your initial reactions? Are you for or against the government’s data collections plans?
- What are some of the benefits to this personal data collection programme? The weaknesses?
- The article tells us that spending more money increases one’s overall score. What repercussions does that have for the Chinese economy? How is one’s spending related to their credit and risk-taking?
- Much of the pressure that IB students feel is related to their IB scores. Similarly, one’s score out of 950, including job performance, could change how you think and work. What theories/concepts have you learned from business/psych/TOK/history that can be applied here?
- Are we more than the sum of our 950-scores? How do you “rate” a friend with a score? What’s missing from these scores that can’t be expressed in numbers?
- As a westerner, how is my reading of this article influenced by my non-eastern education/upbringing? What is your perspective?
- What other stakeholders are involved in this scheme but aren’t mentioned?
- What does the title of the article insinuate about the author’s bias?
- How much personal privacy are we willing to give up in exchange for more/better information about food security, for example?
- The conclusion of the article alludes to a possible new industry within the black market? How do you foresee the Chinese government tackling this situation? What options are there?
- The boxed text at the bottom of the 2nd page notes that in the West, America presumably, people are being tracked for commercial interests rather than those of the state. Which makes do you prefer? Which makes you more uncomfortable – why?
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