Explanation for Question 32 From the Reading Section on the 2019 October Sat
Question 32 says the main purpose of the passage is to what? 2 So let's look at the introductory paragraph to this passage and see if there's 3 evidence here that can kind of point us in the direction of one of 4 these answers. So if we look at this paragraph, 5 it starts off saying humans have human beings have coped with uncertainty for as 6 long as we've been recognizably human. And they go on to say it was 7 remarkably late in history, arguably as late as the 17, 8 13 publication of Jacob, Bernoulli's our Conject Dundee before 9 the best minds started to think seriously about probability. 10 So what this introductory paragraph is doing, 11 the job of introducing is this idea of the 12 consideration of probability in the context of when it came about in history 13 and it talks about human tendencies throughout. 14 So let's look at the answer choices here and see which one points to 15 this idea. 16 So answer choice a says to criticize the unreasonable expectations, 17 held by many human beings, answer choice a is going to be incorrect here. 18 Even the passage is talking about how humans incorrectly associate the 19 degree of correlation between confidence and accuracy. 20 This isn't going to point directly to unreasonable expectations in this passage. 21 Isn't critical. So that's how I answer choice a would be incorrect. 22 If we look at answer choice B, it sets to contrast the behaviors of 23 ancient and modern societies answer choice B might be kind of a distractor 24 a...