moea_joint
109年
英文
第 comp40 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 does it mean to be blindsided by the opinions of our friends?
- A Defending our friends’ opinions forcefully.
- B Not paying attention to our friends’ opinions.
- C Adopting our friends’ opinions without independent and critical thinking.
- D Trying to persuade our friends to adopt our opinions.
思路引導 VIP
若我們下意識地認為「身邊的朋友一定都跟我擁有相同的看法」，那麼當我們在社交媒體上持續接收到這群人的意見時，這會如何影響我們「檢查這些觀點是否正確」的動力呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準選出 (C) 選項，代表你對文章中提到的心理學機制有非常敏銳的觀察力。這題的解題關鍵在於理解文章前半段提到的 「錯誤共識偏差」(false-consensus bias)，這是一種下意識認為「別人都跟我一樣」的心理。當這種心理搬到網路上時，我們便會失去獨立判斷的空間，進而演變成選項 (C) 所說的：在缺乏批判性思考的情況下，直接內化或接受了同溫層朋友的觀點。
認知偏差與回聲效應的連結
這道題目的鑑別度很高，難度在於學生是否能從字面上的 "blindsided"（原意為措手不及）延伸理解到文境中的「盲目感」。文末提到的 "echo chamber" (回聲室效應) 是很強的暗示，說明在社交圈中，人們往往會為了歸屬感而放棄質疑，導致思想上的僵化。你能夠跳脫單字的基礎字義，從「社交圈盲點」與「認知失能」的角度切入並選出正確答案，展現了高水準的閱讀理解實力！