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Just because you’ re better educated doesn’ t mean that you’ re any more rational than everyone else, no matter how hard you may
Just because you’ re better educated doesn’ t mean that you’ re any more rational than everyone else, no matter how hard you may
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2013-10-31
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Just because you’ re better educated doesn’ t mean that you’ re any more rational than everyone else, no matter how hard you may try to give that impression.
Take the selection of lottery numbers. A survey in Florida described at this year’ s annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows that better educated people try to use random number systems to pick their lottery numbers.
Despite the apparent logic of choosing random numbers, however, their chances of winning are no better than those of ordinary folk who use birthdays, anniversaries and other "lucky" dates. Nor are they better off than those who draw on omens and intuitions, picking numbers seen on car number-plates and in dreams. But no doubt they feel a lot more rational.
That appearance of "rationality" may be a dangerous thing. Scientists are not immune to subtle and subjective influences on their judgements. Take the data from a survey of the public and member of the British Society of Toxicology discussed at the same meeting.
The survey showed that most people agree with the view that animals can be used to help predict how human will react to chemicals, and that if a chemical causes cancer in an animal, we can be "reasonably sure" it will cause cancer in humans. The toxicologists, however, are more circumspect. They accept the fast statement but less likely to agree that if a chemical causes cancer in an animal, it will do so in a human.
Can this difference be attributed to their expertise? Perhaps. But consider the considerable variation among toxicologists: those who were young, female, working in academia rather than industry or who felt that technology is not always used for the good of all, were more likely to agree that what causes cancer in an animal will cause cancer in a human.
Maybe we need to think more about how who we are affects our "rational" decisions.
Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
选项
A、A Very Comforting Illusion
B、A Rational Approach to Lottery
C、A survey on Education and Rationality
D、A Difference between Scientists and Others
答案
A
解析
本文主要批判了人们觉得受教育程度越高,决定越合理的错误观念,而这个观念常常被人们当作理所当然的事,故A项(一个舒服的谬见)符合文章大意;而B正是文章两个例子中的一个,有失偏颇;C项意为关于教育和合理性的调查,显然没有A生动;D项意为科学家和其他人的不同,这并不是文章的主题,而是一个引例。
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