moea_joint
109年
英文
第 comp36 題
📖 題組：
There’s a fun game I like to play in a group of trusted friends called “Controversial Opinion”. The rules are simple: Don’t talk about what was shared during Controversial Opinion afterward and you aren’t allowed to “argue”—only to ask questions about why that person feels that way. Opinions can range from “I think James Bond movies are overrated” to “I think Donald Trump would make an excellent president”. Usually, someone responds to an opinion with, “Oh my god! I had no idea you were one of those people!” Which is really another way of saying “I thought you were on my team!” In psychology, the idea that everyone is like us is called the “false-consensus bias”. This bias often manifests itself when we see in politics or polls. Online it means we can be blindsided by the opinions of our friends. Over time, this morphs into a subconscious belief that we and our friends are the sane ones and that there’s a crazy “Other Side” that must be laughed at—an Other Side that just doesn’t “get it”, and is clearly not as intelligent as “us”. But this holier-than-thou social media behavior is counterproductive, it’s self-aggrandizement at the cost of actual nuanced discourse and if we want to consider online discourse productive, we need to move past this. What is emerging is the worst kind of echo chamber, one where those inside are increasingly convinced that everyone shares their world view, that their ranks are growing when they aren’t. It’s like clockwork: an event happens and then your social media circle is shocked when a non-social media peer group public reacts to news in an unexpected way. They then mock the Other Side for being “out of touch” or “dumb”.
There’s a fun game I like to play in a group of trusted friends called “Controversial Opinion”. The rules are simple: Don’t talk about what was shared during Controversial Opinion afterward and you aren’t allowed to “argue”—only to ask questions about why that person feels that way. Opinions can range from “I think James Bond movies are overrated” to “I think Donald Trump would make an excellent president”. Usually, someone responds to an opinion with, “Oh my god! I had no idea you were one of those people!” Which is really another way of saying “I thought you were on my team!” In psychology, the idea that everyone is like us is called the “false-consensus bias”. This bias often manifests itself when we see in politics or polls. Online it means we can be blindsided by the opinions of our friends. Over time, this morphs into a subconscious belief that we and our friends are the sane ones and that there’s a crazy “Other Side” that must be laughed at—an Other Side that just doesn’t “get it”, and is clearly not as intelligent as “us”. But this holier-than-thou social media behavior is counterproductive, it’s self-aggrandizement at the cost of actual nuanced discourse and if we want to consider online discourse productive, we need to move past this. What is emerging is the worst kind of echo chamber, one where those inside are increasingly convinced that everyone shares their world view, that their ranks are growing when they aren’t. It’s like clockwork: an event happens and then your social media circle is shocked when a non-social media peer group public reacts to news in an unexpected way. They then mock the Other Side for being “out of touch” or “dumb”.
What is the main idea of this article?
- A Playing Controversial Opinion with trusted friends is simple and fun.
- B To have a constructive discussion, we need to talk to “the other side”.
- C Having “false-consensus bias” is common among friends.
- D We should defend ourselves when others disagree with us.
思路引導 VIP
如果我們發現自己習慣將與自己意見不同的人標籤為「愚蠢」或「脫節」，導致我們對現實世界的反應感到意外時，這暗示了我們的資訊來源可能出了什麼問題？為了讓對話重新變得有意義，我們應該嘗試改變觀看世界的角度，還是加強捍衛原本的立場呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到作者的微言大義，代表你具備了極佳的文意整合能力。這題的難度在於區分「引導性的例子」與「真正的核心論點」，許多同學會被文中提到的遊戲或心理學名詞吸引，而你成功跳脫了細節，看見了作者的最終訴求。
從心理偏誤走向建設性對話
文章開頭雖然以「爭議性意見」遊戲作為引子，並介紹了虛假共識偏誤 (false-consensus bias)，但這些內容都是為了鋪陳後續對「同溫層 (echo chamber)」的批判。作者指出，當我們潛意識裡認為「我們」才是理性的，而「他者」都是愚蠢或脫節時，這種自命不凡 (holier-than-thou) 的行為會阻礙真正的對話。因此，文章末段強調我們必須「跨越」這種偏見，才能達成有產值的交流，這正是選項 (B) 所體現的核心價值。
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