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People often treat the popularity of a claim as evidence of its accuracy. Yet ten reports do not provide ten independent reasons for belief if they all repeat one unverified message. Repetition can make a statement familiar without making it better supported. Readers therefore need to follow the chain of reporting back to its origin, rather than merely count the pages on which it appears. A community group read several reports that a footbridge had become unsafe. Every report referred to the same photograph, taken before repairs had been completed. The group then obtained a recent inspection record and asked the inspector what had actually been examined. This did not mean that all online reports were worthless. It meant that their agreement could not substitute for independent, relevant evidence. A source should be judged by how its information was obtained and whether that information addresses the present question, not simply by how many other sources repeat it. * inspection: 점검 / substitute for: ~을 대신하다

People often treat the popularity of a claim as evidence of its accuracy. Yet ten reports do not provide ten independent reasons for belief if they all repeat one unverified message. Repetition can make a statement familiar without making it better supported. Readers therefore need to follow the chain of reporting back to its origin, rather than merely count the pages on which it appears. A community group read several reports that a footbridge had become unsafe. Every report referred to the same photograph, taken before repairs had been completed. The group then obtained a recent inspection record and asked the inspector what had actually been examined. This did not mean that all online reports were worthless. It meant that their agreement could not substitute for independent, relevant evidence. A source should be judged by how its information was obtained and whether that information addresses the present question, not simply by how many other sources repeat it. * inspection: 점검 / substitute for: ~을 대신하다

A town introduced a digital map showing vacant parking spaces. Officials expected drivers to spend less time searching, since the map would direct them to an available place before they entered a crowded street. (A) The team therefore changed what the map displayed. Instead of announcing a precise number of empty spaces, it showed how recently each area had been checked and warned users when information was old. Drivers could then judge the uncertainty before deciding where to go. (B) During the first week, however, drivers reported that spaces marked as vacant were already occupied when they arrived. The map had been accurate when it was updated, but several minutes could pass before the next update. More drivers following the same signal made the delay even more important. (C) Once these limitations became visible, users stopped treating the display as a promise. The map did not create additional parking, but it helped them make decisions with a clearer understanding of what the information could and could not tell them.

[주어진 문장] This apparent improvement, however, could result from remembering the position of the answer rather than understanding the relationship being tested. A teacher wanted to know whether students understood how a scientific explanation connected evidence to a conclusion. She first asked them to answer a short multiple-choice question after reading an explanation. ① The next day, she gave them exactly the same question, with the alternatives arranged in exactly the same order. ② More students selected the correct alternative on the second attempt. ③ To distinguish these possibilities, she then presented a new situation involving the same relationship and changed the wording and order of the alternatives. ④ Some students who had answered the repeated question correctly could not explain their choice in the new situation. ⑤ Their difficulty suggested that success on a familiar item alone was not sufficient evidence of transferable understanding. * transferable: 다른 상황에 적용할 수 있는

A museum redesigned the labels beside its exhibits because visitors often left without understanding why the objects mattered. The old labels contained dates and technical terms, but rarely connected an object to a question a visitor might ask. ① The new labels began with a brief question and then used a concrete detail from the exhibit to develop an answer. ② This arrangement encouraged visitors to inspect the object before deciding what the explanation meant. ③ Staff also compared how long visitors looked at an exhibit and whether they could explain its significance afterward. ④ The museum's underground storage room maintained a stable temperature to prevent delicate materials from deteriorating. ⑤ These observations helped the writers revise labels that attracted attention but still failed to communicate the intended idea. The project treated a label not as a container for all available information, but as a guide to a purposeful act of looking. * deteriorate: 손상되다