- [Narrator] We make assumptions about people all the time.
It's not necessarily a bad thing,
but how often are we actually right
about the assumptions we make, and how often are we right
about the assumptions other people make about us?
To find out, we decided to put someone in the hot seat
and have 100 strangers rate them one to 100
based on various levels of first impression.
In doing so, we would hopefully be able to see
how different ways of communicating could drastically
change the way we perceive others.
Welcome to one to 100.
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- Hi everyone. My name is DJ Coronado.
I'm a college student.
I'm 20 years old and I also am in a fraternity.
- What would you rate yourself?
- I'd give myself like a high B, so probably like 87
- For intelligence? - Yeah. For intelligence.
- Alrighty. - Yeah.
- [Phil] Our first group is just gonna be looking at you.
- I don't know if I come off as an intelligent person.
I guess we'll see.
It really depends on the questions
that they ask me and stuff like that, so.
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- Can you show what kind of pants you're wearing
if you're wearing pants?
Or are you wearing underwear?
- Can we see your closet?
- Yeah, can we see your clothes?
Oh, organized.
- Oh. - Okay, (indistinct) stuff.
- The fact that he has piercings and put in a lot of effort
to present himself made it feel
like he was more into that rather than academics.
- He looked sweet and like,
typically whenever you see people in glasses,
you're like, "Oh, this person's smart."
He didn't have glasses, but he still looked like
he was like put together.
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- I think I took a hit when they all saw
kind of like the fraternity flag at the end,
but other than that really, really nice people.
I liked it.
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- Yes, come on DJ. Yes.
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Oh, he ain't got that many pictures, but it's all right.
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- Oh, he's been to Barcelona.
That's where I live. (laughs)
- He's very independent.
- Yeah. - I don't know about
independent because he only got like
one, two, like nine slides. - It says he goes
to Pepperdine though.
- That don't mean nothin'.
- This one doesn't have any of the activism posts.
- Adrian, you know you right. (group groaning)
You right Adrian.
- So true, girl. - True thing.
- He just travels.
- To me, if someone's traveling,
especially if they're in college,
all that means to me is they have the means to travel.
- Yup, thank you.
- Like there's no like depth.
- Nope. - Like he put Amsterdam
in that picture, it was like AmsterDAMN
with a capital D-A-M-N.
- I would hope that he has a lot of knowledge
because since he travels so much, I would hope
that he like knows the culture and it's not just for show.
He did travel a lot and he seems like someone
who was really outgoing,
so I would assume that he knows a lot
about different cultures and how different people work.
- It was pretty deeply rooted in everyone's experiences
whether they went to college or not
on how they perceived having the means to travel
and prioritizing travel over studying or an internship.
- I would've scored him higher
if there were more social justice posts.
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- We're gonna move on to the next section then,
conversations over voice.
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- [David] Hi Sam.
- [Sam] Hi.
- [David] Hi, my name is David. Nice to meet you.
- [Participant 2] Nice to meet you, David.
What are you a student of?
- [David] So yeah, I'm a student of Integrated Marketing
Communications at Pepperdine University in Malibu.
- [Participant 3] All right, cool. What's your GPA?
- [David] My GPA is a 3.7 right now, so-
- [Participant 3] Damn! Okay, okay.
- [David] Where did you actually go?
- [Participant 4] I went to Wheaton College in Chicago,
but now I'm a law student
in St. Louis. - Oh nice.
- [Participant 5] Where do you get your news from?
- [David] It just really depends.
I try and honestly do BBC
just because I feel like they're the least biased.
I don't really like reading politically charged articles
from either spectrum, so yeah.
I get a lot of the news from BBC for sure.
- [Participant 6] So what do you think about like COVID
and like Trump's administration trying
to silence data and like- - Yeah.
- [Participant 6] Trying to, all that, yeah, all that.
- [David] Yeah, I don't agree with it whatsoever.
I think everyone needs to be wearing a mask,
self quarantining.
- [Participant 7] Do you have any hobbies?
- [David] Yeah, hobbies, I love reading.
I love reading anything from non-fiction to fiction.
- [Participant 8] What would you say is your favorite book?
- [David] It's "The Great Gatsby".
That was just my favorite growing up.
- [Participant 8] You have very good taste.
Great Gatsby's actually my favorite book as well.
- Awesome. - Has been my whole life.
- [Participant 9] Oh man, I hate "The Great Gatsby".
- [David] Oh, well. (laugh)
- [Participant 10] What do you prioritize most, and why?
- [David] I would say family.
I wouldn't be where I am without them,
so I'm a very family-oriented person.
- [Participant 11] What do you think denotes
like someone who is truly intelligent?
- [David] I think that it's not so much just academically,
if you're book smart, quote unquote book smart,
I don't think that's a true judgment intellect at all.
I think a real judgment would be
whether or not that person applies themself
to whatever they're passionate about
and are able to problem solve throughout their journey.
- So I gave it a pretty high score
because I was able to have a conversation
with him about what his work was,
and he said that he was in a business field
and I feel like that involves a lot of education.
- We talked a lot about his education experience
and just the way he talked about it he was very confident,
but not in like a arrogant way, I guess.
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- Hi. - Hi, how are you?
- Good. Good. How are you?
- I'm good. I'm Darian.
- Nice to meet you, Darian. My name is David.
- Virtual, virtual handshake.
- Virtual handshake.
Yes, put 'er there. (laughs) - Virtual hand shake
- Okay. Shall I start? - Yeah, of course.
- Okay, what are your dreams?
- Dreams? I hope to one day own my own marketing firm.
I would say that's probably like my 15 to 20 year dream.
- I believe you can do it. (laughs)
- Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
I believe you can do it. - Thank you.
- Do you know like your states and capitals?
- I can name all the states.
I don't know about every single capital,
but I can name every state.
- What can be broken, but is never held?
- What can be broken, but is never held.
Spirit.
- A promise.
- A promise, dang it.
- With people do you feel that you connect well with people
very easily or like sometimes it's really hard to?
- Yeah, I would say I, a blessing and a curse,
I run my mouth 24/7, so I just get talking
and so hopefully that makes other people
kind of more comfortable to be able
to communicate with me as a person.
- What do you think has to happen for change?
Like what's something you could suggest
that could make a change in the world?
- I think it starts with this newer generation
teaching the generation after us
what ideals we should have as Americans.
And that if you believe that there isn't a problem
with racism in America right now
that you're completely wrong because there is a problem.
So I think the ultimate change would definitely be
this generation taking accountability
for the older generation's actions
and passing those ideals that we want our children to have
in the next generation, so yeah.
- [Phil] All right, and that is two minutes.
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for me is like someone who is already great.
Like they're already thinking outside of just themselves
and just the things they learn in books,
they are able to grow.
- He kind of seemed nervous when I was talking
to him and asking questions
and I think like he was just talking really quickly,
so I didn't really see him as that intelligent.
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- So I think that camera or not, like,
I think when I was able to actually communicate
back and forth with the person
that they found value in that.
And I think that my social media appearance
and just my general like room appearance
and just me without talking, I don't think that was too bad,
but it didn't really show who I was as a person, so yeah.
- [Phil] If you can guess within three points
either direction of the average score you got today
based on the interactions you had, then you win $100.
- Oh, wow.
Okay, I'd go with... (sighs)
I'm gonna say 86.
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(laughs) Oh, wow. Okay. (buzzer honks)
Interesting.
- [Phil] What do you think caused the disparity?
- I think it was definitely maybe the first two groups.
I definitely saw that like the fraternity thing
came into play and I knew that was gonna happen.
Hopefully I kind of broke that stereotype
a little bit today.
- Looking back at it, I feel like I judged him
a little bit too harshly,
and I feel like everyone else did as well
because it's social media.
And I think we were being pessimistic instead of optimistic.
- What would you rate yourself?
- (laughs) Oh, like a 20.
- If he knows better as a marketing major
he should know how to sell himself, essentially.
He didn't have photos of friends,
he didn't have photos with animals or pets,
he wasn't posting about all of the horrible things
we have going on in the country right now,
which we need to be talking about.
He's just like, "Yeah, here's some
of my favorite shots of me in Italy."
- I definitely get that fraternity
and I guess sororities aren't really seen
as like the brightest on campus and whatnot,
as in terms of like stereotypes
among Greek life and whatnot.
I think they're all pretty justifiable.
I mean, hopefully I was able to kind of change a little bit
of the stereotype, at least for myself, and yeah.
I overall loved the experience.
I appreciate everyone for taking part in it and yeah.
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