Explanation for Question 15 From the Reading Section on the 2017 April Sat
All right. Question number 15, we're looking at vocabulary and context as 2 used line F 35 magnitude. 3 Most nearly means what? So let's take a look at line 35 4 to see exactly how this word is being used. 5 Um, to put that in perspective, 6 this is roughly the same magnitude as the correlation between the Heights of fathers 7 and the Heights of sons around 0.5. 8 So magnitude is referring to the size of 9 the correlation. Um, we're talking about actual numbers here. 10 Point five, five, and 0.5. So we're talking about those 11 two numbers as having the same magnitude. 12 Um, and we could do that 0.5 and 0.5, 13 five are pretty close. So magnitude to adhere means the size. 14 Those numbers are pretty alike, roughly the same size. 15 Um, the author saying that the correlation between, 16 um, this experiment, 17 um, findings of the actual and predicted impressions 18 of the group is very similar to the correlation between the Heights of 19 fathers in the high substance. 20 So we're going to select for question number 15, 21 um, strength that the size, the magnitude, 22 this, the strength of the correlation, 23 um, it wouldn't make sense to compare the influences of the correlations, 24 the severities of the correlations or the realities of the correlations, 25 but it would make sense to describe the strength of the correlations. 26 So that's why I is a better answer choice than our other alternatives, 27 um, influence. Um, we might talk about how factors have a strong influence...