06.结果与过程Results and Process

A recent bestseller, The Irresistible Temptation of Irrationality, makes the interesting point that people's sense of fairness is actually irrational, and that they tend to care less about whether the "outcome" is really fair and more about whether the "process" is fair. They tend to care less about whether the 'outcome' is really fair and more about whether the process is fair.
There are many examples of this in our lives. One survey, for example, said that a felon's opinion of his defence lawyer was not related to the length of his sentence, but that if the lawyer worked hard enough, the prisoner would give him a high rating. The probability of a doctor being complained about medical malpractice, for example, also has little to do with the medical malpractice that really happened to him, but only with how well that doctor treated his patients.
You see, people have an irrational sense of fairness; they tend not to care about the outcome but more about the process.
重点词汇
irrational 不合理的 ; 不合逻辑的 ; 没有道理的 ; 无理数 ; 无理性的生物
and that 而且，并且
tend to 倾向于 ; 有助于
There are 有 ; 可数名词的复数形式 ; 许多重要事情要谈
for example 例如 ; 比如
felon 重罪犯
but that 若非
medical malpractice 医疗责任事故；医疗失职
do with 忍受，满足于 ; 处置，对待，对付 ; 需要，想要
最近有本畅销书，叫《难以抗拒的非理性诱惑》，其中一个有趣的观点认为，人们对公平的感觉其实是非理性的，他们往往不计较“结果”是不是真的公平，而更在意“过程”是不是公平。
生活里类似的例子比比皆是啊。比如一个调查说，重刑犯人对他辩护律师的评价，和他最后获得的刑期长短没关系，只要律师表现得够努力，犯人就会给他高评价。比如医生被投诉医疗事故的概率，也和他真发生的医疗事故关系不大，而只和这个医生对病人的态度好坏有关。
你看，人们对公平的感觉是不理性的，他们往往不在意结果，而更在意过程。