Who Would You Save?

[JoeXIII'007]

1.Dr. Dane: thirty-seven, Ph.D. in history, college professor, in good health (jogs daily), hobby is botany, enjoys politics, married with one child (Bobby).

2. Mrs. Dane: thirty-eight, rather obese, diabetic, M.A. in psychology, counselor in a mental health clinic, married to Dr. Dane, has one child.

Darn good coupling, might be able to bring #3 into the game well. Consequentially you will have at least a 3 person team that will know each other quite well. Father Frans would lead them, and then the 3 m.o. would be brought into the world as quite a good person, having some form of diverse family. Keepers.

3.Bobby: ten, mentally delayed with IQ of 70.

keep.

4.Mrs. Victor: twenty-three, ninth-grade education, **bleep**tail waitress, worked as a prostitute, married at age sixteen, divorced at age eighteen.

Keep... might help with the raising of Jean.

5.Jean Garcia: three months old, healthy.

Keep... will grow to adapt to the conditions.

6. Mary Evans: eighteen, trade school education, wears glasses, artistic.

Leave her on the boat with the engineers.

7.Mr. Newton: twenty-five year old homosexual starting last year of medical school, , music as a hobby, physical fitness nut.

Keep for med stuff.

8.Mrs. Clark: twenty-eight, daughter of a minister, college graduate, electronics engineer, single now after a brief marriage, member of Zero Population.

Leave her on the boat for a moment...

9.Mr. Blake: fifty-one, B.S. in mechanics, married with four children, enjoys outdoors, much experience in construction, quite handy, sympathizes with anti-black views.

Leave him on the boat for a moment...

10. Father Frans: thirty-seven, Catholic, priest, active in civil rights, former college athlete, farming background, often criticized for liberal views.

Keep keep keep, for the farming and ESPECIALLY the liberal views, shows flexibility and ability to adapt.

11. Dr. Gonzales: sixty-six, doctor in general practice, two heart attacks in the past five years, loves literature and quotes extensively.

No good unfortunately, may not last long on the island itself. Have Father Frans give him and the other three their last rites prior to the life boat load up.

OK... so we get the 7 on the life boat, that leaves 3 engineers (I am including the trades person, technically 2 engineers and 1 mystery person) and some poet on the crippled boat (sinking or not). Have the engineers work on the boat somehow with whatever tools are on board to slow, completely stop the sinking, or make a form of raft to trailer behind the life boat. All this while our literature fanatic/quote machine keeps the morale up by continuously mentioning quotes of inspiration (much like the air traffic controllers in the movie "Airplane").

Therefore, we might just be able to save all 11, 7 explicitly and 4 implicitly.

So: 1,2,3,4,5,7,10 to manually save with 6,8,9, and 11 to save themselves FTW.

[Taylor]

You can only save 7 people. Who would you save.

A severe storm has crippled a small ship, the S.S. Guppy, and the only remaining lifeboat has room for only seven people. You have no hope of reaching civilization, but there's a fairly good chance that you can make it to one of many small, uncharted, and unpopulated islands in the area. You may have to remain on such an island for years. Your task is to choose which seven people should be allowed on the lifeboat, and hence, be allowed to survive.

1.Dr. Dane: thirty-seven, Ph.D. in history, college professor, in good health (jogs daily), hobby is botany, enjoys politics, married with one child (Bobby).
Knowledge of plants would be extremely beneficial in finding food sources; good health would translate to good worker. Keep.

2. Mrs. Dane: thirty-eight, rather obese, diabetic, M.A. in psychology, counselor in a mental health clinic, married to Dr. Dane, has one child.
Psych degree could help mental well-being of group; saving her would also help Dr. Dane's emotional status. Keep.

3.Bobby: ten, mentally delayed with IQ of 70.
Mental deficiencies would portend physical delays and increased chance of injury or disease. Better luck next time, Kid.

4.Mrs. Victor: twenty-three, ninth-grade education, cocl<tail waitress, worked as a prostitute, married at age sixteen, divorced at age eighteen.
She seems like a fighter. Keep.

5.Jean Garcia: three months old, healthy.
Sorry, but no food source for this little one. Adios.

6. Mary Evans: eighteen, trade school education, wears glasses, artistic.
Her glasses would be useful in starting fires. Light refraction saved your life, honey. Keep.

7.Mr. Newton: twenty-five year old homosexual starting last year of medical school, music as a hobby, physical fitness nut.
Should know enough medicine to be handy. Would most likely be friendly to Evans and Victor. Keep.

8.Mrs. Clark: twenty-eight, daughter of a minister, college graduate, electronics engineer, single now after a brief marriage, member of Zero Population.
Have a nice swim, sweetie.

9.Mr. Blake: fifty-one, B.S. in mechanics, married with four children, enjoys outdoors, much experience in construction, quite handy, sympathizes with anti-black views.
With his knowledge of construction and the outdoors, he could help us not only live, but thrive. If I am to be one of the seven survivors, I'd wish him best of luck with his backstroke. Otherwise, keep.

10. Father Frans: thirty-seven, Catholic, priest, active in civil rights, former college athlete, farming background, often criticized for liberal views.
Farming and athletics would go nicely with Blake and Dane. Keep.

11. Dr. Gonzales: sixty-six, doctor in general practice, two heart attacks in the past five years, loves literature and quotes extensively.
Too much risk, we've already got a doc. Bye-bye.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Overyourhead

*note* Zero Population is a contravertial theory that a man and a woman should have no more than 1 kid as to not increase the population.

Actually ZPG is not a theory, it is a proposal or social aim (and an old one at that) that each couple have not more than TWO children to maintain the population at a stable level. Two people being replaced by one is negative population growth...

[vivek16]

Originally Posted by Overyourhead

This is an assignment that I need to do for my Sociology class in College. You can only save 7 people. Who would you save.



A severe storm has crippled a small ship, the S.S. Guppy, and the only remaining lifeboat has room for only seven people. You have no hope of reaching civilization, but there's a fairly good chance that you can make it to one of many small, uncharted, and unpopulated islands in the area. You may have to remain on such an island for years. Your task is to choose which seven people should be allowed on the lifeboat, and hence, be allowed to survive.


1.Dr. Dane: thirty-seven, Ph.D. in history, college professor, in good health (jogs daily), hobby is botany, enjoys politics, married with one child (Bobby).

2. Mrs. Dane: thirty-eight, rather obese, diabetic, M.A. in psychology, counselor in a mental health clinic, married to Dr. Dane, has one child.

3.Bobby: ten, mentally delayed with IQ of 70.

4.Mrs. Victor: twenty-three, ninth-grade education, **bleep**tail waitress, worked as a prostitute, married at age sixteen, divorced at age eighteen.

5.Jean Garcia: three months old, healthy.

6. Mary Evans: eighteen, trade school education, wears glasses, artistic.

7.Mr. Newton: twenty-five year old homosexual starting last year of medical school, , music as a hobby, physical fitness nut.

8.Mrs. Clark: twenty-eight, daughter of a minister, college graduate, electronics engineer, single now after a brief marriage, member of Zero Population.

9.Mr. Blake: fifty-one, B.S. in mechanics, married with four children, enjoys outdoors, much experience in construction, quite handy, sympathizes with anti-black views.

10. Father Frans: thirty-seven, Catholic, priest, active in civil rights, former college athlete, farming background, often criticized for liberal views.

11. Dr. Gonzales: sixty-six, doctor in general practice, two heart attacks in the past five years, loves literature and quotes extensively.


*note* Zero Population is a contravertial theory that a man and a woman should have no more than 1 kid as to not increase the population.


I chose to save 1,3,6,7,8,9,10.


I'm actually a little more interested in why you chose not to save people.

Call me harsh but i had a hard time getting seven.
1,4,6,7,8,9,10 are my choices. All are fit and (with the exception of 7), able to reproduce.

2 would die because of the diabetes
3 would be a burden
5 would die because of a lack of a food source
11 would die quickly

-Vivek

[Nawaid Ladak]

Originally Posted by vivek16

Call me harsh but i had a hard time getting seven.
1,4,6,7,8,9,10 are my choices. All are fit and (with the exception of 7), able to reproduce.

2 would die because of the diabetes
3 would be a burden
5 would die because of a lack of a food source
11 would die quickly

-Vivek

me and you think alike. i would pick these people, and for the same reasons as well

[ScottOliveira]

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

Actually ZPG is not a theory, it is a proposal or social aim (and an old one at that) that each couple have not more than TWO children to maintain the population at a stable level. Two people being replaced by one is negative population growth...

Actually, every couple having 2 children would also result in negative population growth, because not every child goes on to have their own children. You need something like 2.1 children/couple to maintain a constant population level.
That being said, I believe you are correct that the ZPG proposal has it at 2 children/couple.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by ScottOliveira

Actually, every couple having 2 children would also result in negative population growth, because not every child goes on to have their own children. You need something like 2.1 children/couple to maintain a constant population level.
That being said, I believe you are correct that the ZPG proposal has it at 2 children/couple.

Yes, and some of those children meet an untimely death. I simplified it for the post, but the average needs to be 2.0, so to achieve this the birth rate does need to be somewhat higher.

I have to go now, my 0.1 child needs to be changed...

[Overyourhead]

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

Actually ZPG is not a theory, it is a proposal or social aim (and an old one at that) that each couple have not more than TWO children to maintain the population at a stable level. Two people being replaced by one is negative population growth...

Sorry about that...I actually did mean to say two children.Typo,sorry, but thanks for correcting me.