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When a group of Australians was asked why they believed climate change was n

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问题     When a group of Australians was asked why they believed climate change was not happening, about 36％ said it was "common sense", according to a report published last year by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. This was the most popular reason for their opinion, with only 11％ saying their belief that climate change was not happening was based on scientific research.
    But what do we mean by an appeal to common sense? Presumably it’s an appeal to rationality of some sort that forms the basis of more complex reasoning. The appeal to common sense, however, is usually nothing more than an appeal to thinking that just feels right, but what feels right to one person may not feel right to another. Whether it feels right is usually a reflection of the world view and ideologies we have internalised, and that frames how we interact with new ideas. When new ideas are in accord with what we already believe, they are more readily accepted. When they are not, they, and the arguments that lead to them, are more readily rejected.
    We often mistake this automatic compatibility testing of new ideas with existing beliefs as an application of common sense, but, in reality, it is more about judging than thinking. As Nobelist Daniel Kahneman notes in Thinking, Fast and Slow, when we arrive at conclusions in this way, the outcomes also feel true, regardless of whether they are. We are not psychologically well equipped to judge our own thinking.
    We are also highly susceptible to a range of cognitive biases such as giving preference to the first things that come to mind when making decisions or giving weight to evidence.
    One way we can check our internal biases and inconsistencies is through the social verification of knowledge, in which we test our ideas in a rigorous and systematic way to see if they make sense not just to us, but to other people. The outstanding example of this socially shared cognition is science.
    That does not mean that individuals are not capable of excellent thinking, nor does it mean no individual is rational. But the extent to which individuals can do this on their own is a function of how well integrated they are with communities of systematic inquiry in the first place. You can’t learn to think well by yourself.
    In matters of science at least, those who value their common sense over methodological, collaborative investigation imagine themselves to be more free in their thinking, unbound by involvement with the group, but in reality they are tightly bound by their capabilities and perspectives. We are smarter together than we are individually, and perhaps that’s just common sense. [br] What does Daniel Kahneman think is the problem of testing new ideas with existing beliefs?
选项 A、It may lead to incorrect judgment.
B、It makes no use of common sense.
C、It fails to correct mistakes through serious reasoning.
D、It can produce psychologically unacceptable outcomes.
答案 A
解析 由题干中的Daniel Kahneman和testing new ideas with existing beliefs 定位到第三段第一、二句。推理判断题。文章第三段第一句指出，我们经常误以为这种将新想法与现有信念自动兼容的测试是对常识的应用，但实际上这更多的是判断而非思考。第二句接着说，丹尼尔.卡尼曼在其著作中表示，当我们以这种方式得出结论时，不管它们是否的确真实，我们心里也会感觉是真实的，由此可知，这种方式有可能会导致不正确的判断。故答案为A。文章第三段第一句提到我们以为这种测试方法是对常识的应用，实际上这种方法更多的是一种判断，但这并非丹尼尔.卡尼曼的观点，B项与题干不符，故排除；该段也并未提及推理的相关内容，故排除C项；第三段最后一句提到，我们在心理上不具备判断自己思维的能力，并未表示这种方法会产生什么心理上的后果，D项不符合文章意思，故排除。
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