[청랑 킬러문항] 2025 수능 영어 빈칸 문제 #53

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지문)

A committee invites dozens of forecasters to estimate next quarter's demand. The chair proudly cites "crowd wisdom," then circulates everyone's initial guesses on a shared screen "for transparency." Within minutes, outliers slide toward the center, dissenters self-censor, and the variance that would have improved the mean quietly disappears. The eventual average looks impressively tight—and is confidently wrong. By contrast, when individual estimates are collected before discussion, weighted by past calibration, and aggregated with a rule that resists late-stage herding, accuracy rises even if a few entries are wildly off. The difference is not the number of heads but the conditions under which those heads think: private signals left intact, local knowledge unpoliced, and a mechanism that synthesizes disagreement rather than laundering it away.

Ironically, organizations that praise collective intelligence often adopt practices that corrode it: show-of-hands voting that anchors the room, status-laden debriefs that align junior judgments to senior priors, and real-time dashboards that synchronize errors. Crowds are not wise because they converge; they are wise because their independence is preserved long enough to be combined. Read this, and the author's point resolves: when procedures produce unanimity first and aggregation second, the "collective" becomes a single loud voice wearing many name tags. Thus, the passage implies that a crowd's superiority over individuals depends primarily on ________________.

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Vocabulary

 

variance	/ˈvɛəriəns/	분산, 변동성
calibration	/ˌkælɪˈbreɪʃən/	(예측의) 보정도, 정합성
herding	/ˈhɜːrdɪŋ/	군집 추종 현상
anchor	/ˈæŋkər/	기준점으로 고정하다
synthesize	/ˈsɪnθəsaɪz/	종합하다
launder (away)	/ˈlɔːndər/	(비유) 세탁해 없애다
unanimity	/ˌjuːnəˈnɪmɪti/	만장일치
corrode	/kəˈroʊd/	부식시키다, 손상시키다
dissenter	/dɪˈsentər/	반대자
outlier	/ˈaʊtlaɪər/	이상치, 극단값

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문제) What best completes the blank?

① preserving diversity and independence before applying a robust aggregation rule
② exposing everyone's estimates early to promote transparency and trust
③ maximizing discussion time so participants can align on a shared narrative
④ elevating expert opinions to prevent noisy inputs from skewing the mean
⑤ requiring unanimous consent so that signals do not contradict one another

 

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