Explanation for Question 14 From the Reading Section on the 2017 April Sat
Question number 14 asks which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to 2 the previous question. Recall, the previous question is asking about a situation 3 where you would stand the greatest chance of predicting how a person is perceived. 4 Um, and we talked about how, 5 um, each of these answer choices, um, 6 aside from choice B talks about one or two individuals, 7 whereas B is talking about collective opinion. 8 So that makes it the correct answer because of the passages, 9 finding that we have an easier time figuring out, 10 um, how we're perceived by a group on average than by individuals or really 11 small groups of people. Um, 12 so we're going to try to find some evidence for that finding of the 13 passage that, um, you can kind of better perceive 14 how people view you when you're talking about a group. 15 So looking at our answer choices, um, 16 we'll take a look at each of these in turn and try to see 17 which connects to that idea of being able to guess how a group kind 18 of perceives you. 19 So answer choice a here is lines nine to 13, 20 nine to 13, the traits varied from one experiments to another and included quality 21 such as, and then these examples that's not super relevant to, 22 um, that overall finding of the passage. 23 So we can eliminate a choice B lions 28 to 24 33. Um, 25 first the good news, these experiments suggested that people are pretty good overall at 26 guessing how a group of others would evaluate them. On average, 27 this is g...