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If the various advocates of the conflicting options are all smart, experienced, and well-informed, why do they disagree so compl
If the various advocates of the conflicting options are all smart, experienced, and well-informed, why do they disagree so compl
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问题
If the various advocates of the conflicting options are all smart, experienced, and well-informed, why do they disagree so completely? Wouldn’t they all have thought the issue through carefully and come to approximately the same "best" conclusion?
The answer to that crucial question lies in the structure of the human brain and the way it processes information.
Most human beings actually decide before they think. When any human being —executive, specialized expert, or person in the street — encounters a complex issue and forms an opinion, often within a matter of seconds, how thoroughly has he or she explored the implications of the various courses of action? Answer: not very thoroughly. Very few people, no matter how intelligent or experienced, can take inventory of the many branching possibilities, possible outcomes, side effects, and undesired consequences of a policy or a course of action in a matter of seconds. Yet, those who pride themselves on being decisive often try to do just that. And once their brains lock onto an opinion, most of their thinking thereafter consists of finding support for it.
A very serious side effect of argumentative decision making can be a lack of support for the chosen course of action on the part of the "losing" faction. When one faction wins the meeting and the others see themselves as losing, the battle often doesn’t end when the meeting ends. Anger, resentment, and jealousy may lead them to sabotage the decision later, or to reopen the debate at later meetings.
There is a better way. As philosopher Aldous Huxley said, "It isn’t who is right, but what is right, that counts. "
The structured-inquiry method offers a better alternative to argumentative decision making by debate. With the help of the Internet and wireless computer technology, the gap between experts and executives is now being dramatically closed. By actually putting the brakes on the thinking process, slowing it down, and organizing the flow of logic, it’s possible to create a level of clarity that sheer argumentation can never match.
The structured-inquiry process introduces a level of conceptual clarity by organizing the contributions of the experts, then brings the experts and the decision makers closer together. Although it isn’t possible or necessary for a president or prime minister to listen in on every intelligence analysis meeting, it’s possible to organize the experts’ information to give the decision maker much greater insight as to its meaning. This process may somewhat resemble a marketing focus group; it’s a simple, remarkably clever way to bring decision makers closer to the source of the expert information and opinions on which they must base their decisions.
From the first 3 paragraphs we can learn that ______.
选项
A、executive, specialized expert, are no more clever than person in the street.
B、very few people decide before they think.
C、those who pride themselves on being decisive often fail to do so
D、people tend to consider carefully before making decisions
答案
C
解析
推论题,文章一开始就谈到,如果各种观点的倡导者(advocates)都是非常聪明、经验丰富、见闻广博的人,为什么他们的见解完全不一致?为什么他们不能得出大致相同的“最佳”结论?问题的答案在于人的大脑结构和处理信息的方法不同。大多数人实际上先决定,后思考(decide before they think),很少有人能够在做决定前那一霎那就将各种问题考虑得面面俱到(few people take inventory of the many branching possibilities, possible outcomes, side effects)。而自夸有决断能力的人(those who pride themselves on being decisive)经常就试图要那么做,然而却做不到这一点。因为他们的头脑一旦锁定为某种见解,其思想就固定了,所以本题的正确答案为C。
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