TOK Question Help

[TheSeventhSloth]

So, my school has this program called the IB Bridge and in it I've been given an assignment to write an essay. So the essay has to be based on a knowledge question. My question is "To what extent are there more than two genders?". So how would I rephrase that into a good knowledge question?

[fromsomewhere2k17]

Honestly, i'm not so sure about that KQ. From what i've heard from my teachers, KQ's should be about the formation of knowledge, and how does that knowledge affect us (or how we come to influence knowledge)- the much hyped 'how do we know what we know' meme. However, this phrase is not a joke and it's actually quite serious in ToK in order to form a good KQ and KC.

Your KQ, on the other hand, can easily be made into a second-order KQ if u give some more thought on the knowledge related aspects of the issue instead of going into a debate. Maybe you could rephrase it by saying how shared knowledge may shape our perceptions. For example, "How has shared knowledge come to determine what we perceive as normal?" Don't take my word as final though; you should probably discuss that with your teachers.

 

Hope this helps!

[shellziess]

I agree with @fromsomewhere2k17. Your question is not really a KQ. However the KQ that @fromsomewhere2k17 gave you may be a starting point...

[TheSeventhSloth]

Thanks for the feedback. I'll ask my teacher what exactly she's looking for and that will hopefully give me an idea on what to do.