Why We Trust Strangers' Stars
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Every day, millions of people hand over money to someone they will never meet, on the strength of a few gold stars. A stranger's apartment, a stranger's car, a stranger's cooking: we trust them because other strangers have said we should.
1. Why do we trust these strangers?
- AWe have met them before
- BOther strangers said we should
- CThey are always cheaper
Ver la respuesta
B. Other strangers said we should
Other strangers, through their stars, said we should.
La prueba en el texto: because other strangers have said we should
Ratings solve an old problem. Before them, trust was built slowly and locally, through reputation among people who knew each other. A five-star score compresses thousands of experiences into a single number that anyone can read in a second, anywhere in the world.
2. What does a five-star score do?
- AIt turns many experiences into one number
- BIt shows the price of a place
- CIt checks that every review is true
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A. It turns many experiences into one number
It compresses thousands of experiences into one number anyone can read.
La prueba en el texto: compresses thousands of experiences into a single number
But the number is less informative than it looks. On many platforms the average is so high, often above four and a half, that a four-star rating reads as a warning. When nearly everyone scores near the top, the scale stops telling good from excellent and only separates the acceptable from the rest.
3. True or false? When almost everyone scores high, the stars still show which places are excellent.
- ATrue (Verdadero)
- BFalse (Falso)
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B. False (Falso)
When nearly everyone scores high, the scale stops telling good from excellent.
La prueba en el texto: the scale stops telling good from excellent
The deeper risk is that we have outsourced a judgment we used to make ourselves. A single number feels objective, but it hides who was asked, what they expected and what they left out. Stars are useful, the writer argues, as long as we remember they are opinions wearing the costume of facts.
4. When the writer calls stars 'opinions wearing the costume of facts', it means they…
- Aare always wrong
- Bare facts that look like opinions
- Care opinions that look like facts
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C. are opinions that look like facts
Stars are opinions dressed up to look like facts.
La prueba en el texto: they are opinions wearing the costume of facts
Vocabulario en español
| Inglés | Español | Significado en inglés |
|---|---|---|
| reputation | reputación | what people generally think about someone |
| compresses | comprime | presses something into a smaller space |
| outsourced | delegado | given a job to someone else to do |
| costume | disfraz | clothes that make you look like someone else |
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