Explanation for Question 19 From the Reading Section on the 2019 March Sat
Okay. Question 19 is saying based on information in the passage, 2 it can reasonably be inferred that the majority of survey respondents represented in figure 3 one, have what common feature. 4 So the respondents in figure one are going to be all of our participants 5 in the study. So this is referring to the 6 study in 2010, volunteering in your Howard's. 7 That is the first study that's referenced in this passage. 8 So, um, or excuse me, the second one, 9 this 2010 survey. So looking at this paragraph about 10 these volunteers, um, we want to know what commonality they all share. 11 So we're definitely gonna need to look at our answer choices to get a 12 better sense of the correct answer, but just based off this paragraph, 13 we can note that, um, a majority reported lowered stress levels. 14 Um, and this is a connection that appears to hold true regardless of 15 culture as well. 16 Um, and so we'll, we'll need to draw on some other understandings in the 17 passage as well. Um, given this details towards 18 the end about how this is likely linked to a sense that they're doing 19 something significant and, um, 20 that helping others may signal bodies to release, 21 um, pleasurable chemicals like oxytocin. 22 So looking at our answer choices for this question, 23 we see answer choice a reads value volunteering 24 because they have a high degree of empathy. Um, 25 having a high degree of empathy is not something that we really see discussed. 26 So we don't want to go ahead an...