원서독해, 타미샘만 따라하면 누구나 할 수 있어요!

안녕하세요, 바른영어훈련소 입니다! 2020년 1월 1일 타미샘과 함께하는 원서독해 시리즈 교양영어 고급지문 - 1편, 2편이 드디어 출간 됩니다! 도서는, 교보문고, 예스24, 알라딘, 인터파크 등 4대 서점에서 만나보실 수 있습니다! 오늘은, 해당 도서 중 1권의 10번지문 "Card Stacking"에 대하여 타미샘과 함께 독해를 해보도록 하겠습니다! 타미샘과 호흡맞춰 따라하시면 누구나 쉽게 원서독해 하실 수 있습니다! 함께 연습해 주세요^^! [What is Card Stacking] When people say that “the cards were stacked against me,” they mean that they were never given a fair chance. Applied to propaganda, card stacking means that one side may suppress or distort evidence, tell half-truths, over simplify the facts, or set up a “straw man” - a false target - to divert attention from the issue at hand. Card stacking is a difficult form of propaganda both to detect and to combat. When a candidate claims that an opponent has “changed his mind five times on this important issue,” we tend to accept the claim without investigating whether the candidate had good reasons for changing his mind. Many people are simply swayed by the distorted claim that the candidate is “waffling” on the issue. Advertisers often stack the cards in favor of the products they are pushing. They may, for instance, use what are called “weasel words.” These are small words that usually slip right past us, but that make the difference between reality and illusion. The weasel words are underlined in the following claims: “Helps control dandruff symptoms.” (The audience usually interprets this as stops dandruff.) “Most dentists surveyed recommend sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum.” (We hear the “most dentists” and “for their patients,” but we don’t think about how many were surveyed or whether the dentists first recommended that the patients not chew gum at all.)