According to the passage, one's gaining greater expertise in a field appears to result in
Ryanon November 5 at 01:24AM
Choice C?
Apart from interpreting the passage and answer choices the same way the test writer does right off the bat, is there a technique or way to eliminate C from this question. And something more concrete to justify why mental shortcuts are ‘substantively different’ than calculations?
Thanks
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Graceon November 18 at 03:46PM
I had the same question - thank you!
Jacobon November 18 at 05:51PM
This is a subtle point, and thus a difficult question. But notice exactly what answer C is saying: that one’s gaining greater expertise in a field appears to result in “an increased tendency to ignore one’s own errors in judgment within that field.â€
That is not quite what the passage is saying. The key can be found in lines 35-38. Those lines say, “we become so expert in making incredibly fast and introspective inferences about our thinking that we fail to notice that we are making them.â€
The key point is that expertise results in a failure to recognize that one is making inferences — not a tendency to ignore one’s own errors in judgment! Like I said, it is a subtle difference, but that is why answer C is incorrect.
