Explanation for Question 18 From the Reading Section on the 2017 April Sat
Question number 18. The main reason that the author includes the information about speed 2 daters job candidates and teachers in line 78, 85 is to what? 3 So the reason that they include the information about speedometers job candidates and 4 teachers, let's go back to see how those examples are actually presented 5 to us. Um, this is in the context of 6 the author presenting the finding that people are only slightly better than chance at 7 guessing who in a group likes them. And doesn't, 8 so that's kind of the trend that's being discussed here. 9 Um, and then they say the same barely better than guessing. 10 Accuracy is also found in experiments investigating speed daters job 11 candidates and teacher course evaluations. 12 So these other examples are kind of used to, 13 um, suggest other ways in which this finding is relevant, 14 um, and suggest that other studies have kind of arrived at a similar conclusion. 15 So we are more likely to trust this finding since it matches up pretty 16 well with what, um, 17 similar research has found as well. 18 Um, so looking at our answer choices, I says caution against 19 making assumptions about individual motives. 20 Um, this piece about individual motives isn't really relevant. 21 Um, so we can eliminate a answer twice, 22 be distinguished among certain behaviors observed in three different scenarios. 23 Um, there's no reason to distinguish between or distinguish among certain 24 behaviors. Um, since we're kind of focusing on the sim...