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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.
What are the survey data suggesting in the passage?
选项
A、We are living in the age of rationality.
B、Nobody can be trusted in terms of truth.
C、Humans and animals do not react to chemicals in the same way.
D、The sense of rationality cannot avoid being subjectively influenced.
答案
D
解析
第二三段提出,受过教育的人认为他们抽取彩票时主观感受他们的做法更合理,第五六段提出,虽然貌似很多毒理专家处理在动物身上引起癌症的药物是否会在人身上也引发癌症这个问题十分谨慎,以求合理,但是事实上那些年轻的、女性、在学术界工作的毒理专家依然十分认同这个观点,可知他们自认为的合理感,是受其主观感觉影响的。
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