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[고2] 2025 09월 – 24번: 임의적 범주화가 초래하는 경계선 효과(borderline effect)의 문제점

 

Everything in the world exists on a continuum, whether in speed, size, or any other possible descriptor you could think of. Still, we create and mindlessly adopt sharp distinctions, and those distinctions change lives far more dramatically than marginal differences ever do. Indeed, all differences are arbitrary, but drawing hard lines between categories hides this arbitrariness and can be severely damaging. I call this resulting damage "the borderline effect." The examples are endless. Someone's IQ is 69 and someone else's is 70 ─ but only the score of 70 is deemed to be within the range of normal. We don't have to be statisticians to know there is not a meaningful difference between 69 and 70. Yet once the person with the lower score is labeled "cognitively impaired," his or her life will unfold differently than the person with a one-point advantage.

 

 

 

[지문 구조 분석]

	내용	문제 지문
주장	세상의 모든 것은 연속적이지만, 인간은 뚜렷한 구분을 만들고 그것이 삶에 큰 영향을 미친다	Everything in the world exists on a continuum, whether in speed, size, or any other possible descriptor you could think of. Still, we create and mindlessly adopt sharp distinctions, and those distinctions change lives far more dramatically than marginal differences ever do.
근거	모든 차이는 자의적이지만 경계를 긋는 것은 이를 숨기고 심각한 피해를 일으킬 수 있다	Indeed, all differences are arbitrary, but drawing hard lines between categories hides this arbitrariness and can be severely damaging. I call this resulting damage "the borderline effect."
예시	IQ 점수 69와 70은 의미 있는 차이가 없지만, 경계선 때문에 한 사람은 정상으로, 다른 사람은 장애로 분류된다	The examples are endless. Someone's IQ is 69 and someone else's is 70 ─ but only the score of 70 is deemed to be within the range of normal. We don't have to be statisticians to know there is not a meaningful difference between 69 and 70. Yet once the person with the lower score is labeled "cognitively impaired," his or her life will unfold differently than the person with a one-point advantage.

 

 

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[원문 비교]

	문제 지문	원문 지문
1	Everything in the world exists on a continuum, whether in speed, size, or any other possible descriptor you could think of.	Everything in the world exists on a continuum, whether in speed, size, virulence, or any other possible descriptor you could think of.
2	Still, we create and mindlessly adopt sharp distinctions, and those distinctions change lives far more dramatically than marginal differences ever do.	Still, we create and mindlessly adopt sharp distinctions, and those distinctions change lives far more dramatically than marginal differences ever do.
3	Indeed, all differences are arbitrary, but drawing hard lines between categories hides this arbitrariness and can be severely damaging.	Indeed, all differences are arbitrary, but drawing hard lines between categories hides this arbitrariness and can be severely damaging.
4	I call this resulting damage "the borderline effect."	I call this resulting damage "the borderline effect."
5	The examples are endless. Someone's IQ is 69 and someone else's is 70 ─ but only the score of 70 is deemed to be within the range of normal.	The examples are endless. Someone’s IQ is 69 and someone else’s is 70—but only the score of 70 is deemed to be within the range of normal.
6	We don't have to be statisticians to know there is not a meaningful difference between 69 and 70.	We don’t have to be statisticians to know there is not a meaningful difference between 69 and 70.
7	Yet once the person with the lower score is labeled "cognitively impaired," his or her life will unfold differently than the person with a one-point advantage.	Yet once the person with the lower score is labeled "cognitively impaired," his or her life will unfold differently than the person with a one-point advantage.

 

* 원문 참고 어휘

 

• virulence (독성, 악성)

 

 

 

 

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