四、閱讀測驗
      There's a fun game I like to play in a group of trusted friends called "Controversial Opinion". Therules are simple: Don't talk about what was shared during Controversial Opinion afterward and youaren't allowed to "argue"--only to ask questions about why that person feels that way. Opinions canrange from "I think James Bond movies are overrated'' to "I think Donald Trump would make anexcellent president". Usually, someone responds to an opinion with, "'Oh my god! I had no idea youwere 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 oftenmanifests 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 asubconscious belief that we and our friends are the sane ones and that there's a crazy 'Other Side" thatmust 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 thecost of actual nuanced discourse and if we want to consider online discourse productive, we need tomove past this.
      What is emerging is the worst kind of echo chamber, one where those inside are increasinglyconvinced that everyone shares their world view, that their ranks are growing when they aren't. It'slike clockwork: an event happens and then your social media circle is shocked when a non-social mediapeer group public reacts to news in an unexpected way. They then mock the Other Side for being " outof touch" or "dumb".
【題組】36. 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.