{"id":3111,"date":"2022-04-15T23:06:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T23:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highclasswriters.com\/blog\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2022-04-15T23:06:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T23:06:05","slug":"power-balance-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highclasswriters.com\/blog\/power-balance-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Balance Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Write a&nbsp;<strong>complete essay<\/strong>&nbsp;that uses critical thinking and evidence-based skepticism to analyze and explain the pseudoscientific claims of the Power Balance hologram wristband. Your essay must&nbsp;<strong>explain<\/strong>&nbsp;how the&nbsp;<strong>Power Balance hologram wristband cannot improve your balance, strength and flexibility.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Put on your skeptic&#8217;s hat and critique the Power Balance test video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Power Balance Test Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6gIMxjr3n5U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the video, the spokesperson had his partner perform three physical tests meant to demonstrate the wristband&#8217;s effectiveness in improving balance, strength and flexibility. The &#8220;tests&#8221; are actually simple tricks that don&#8217;t prove anything about the effectiveness of the wristband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spokesperson introduces the video with a sales pitch that makes meaningless, pseudoscientific claims about the Power Balance hologram wristband:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I have to demonstrate for you today is a revolutionary new product. What we\u2019ve been able to do is harness naturally occurring frequencies and program them into a mylar hologram to help improve your balance, your strength and your flexibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your essay&nbsp;<strong>MUST<\/strong>&nbsp;do the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Explain the simple tricks<\/strong>&nbsp;behind the&nbsp;<em>three tests<\/em>. Explain each test&nbsp;<em>individually<\/em>.<\/li><li><strong>Quote the sales pitch&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>explain<\/strong>&nbsp;how the pseudoscientific jargon is&nbsp;<em>meaningless<\/em>, yet contributes to the&nbsp;<em>perceived effectiveness<\/em>&nbsp;of the product.<\/li><li><strong>Explain how belief in pseudoscientific claims can be harmful.<\/strong>&nbsp;Explain why it is important for a person to develop solid critical thinking skills and employ skepticism when evaluating claims made by \u201cperformance enhancement\u201d products and \u201calternative medicine\u201d practices, such as cupping.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Your essay must be complete and include an introduction, thesis statement, body, and conclusion.&nbsp;Underline your thesis statement.<\/li><li>Your essay must quote only from the above passage.&nbsp;<strong>Do not quote from other sources.<\/strong>&nbsp;Use your own words to present the evidence-based explanation for why the Power Balance wristband could not possible work as advertised.<\/li><li>Your essay must include a works cited page that cites the Power Balance Test Video.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Write a&nbsp;complete essay&nbsp;that uses critical thinking and evidence-based skepticism to analyze and explain the pseudoscientific claims of the Power Balance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - 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