Explanation for Question 14 From the Reading Section on the 2021 March Sat
Question 14, according to the passage, 2 the opinion articles used in the study had what impact on the opinions of 3 Twitter users. So let's take a look at the evidence that is 4 presented to us by the passage, 5 um, and take a look at what they found. 6 Um, so this is kind of discussed in the beginning of the second column 7 here. The researchers noticed that Twitter Postmates topics increased 8 by nearly 63% over the week in which the stories were posted. 9 They wrote specific posts, social media posts about these policy areas. 10 Um, and the cluster of stories swayed people's opinions by 2.3% in the ideological 11 direction of opinion articles. 12 Um, and this suggested that news media might, 13 in some cases change people's beliefs. So this is kind of where 14 the findings of the study are located in the passage. 15 Like we had our answer choices, choice, ISS, 16 Twitter users opinions changed to be increasingly negative towards a specific policy 17 area. 18 Um, this answer choice is not correct. 19 This says increasingly negative, 20 but in reality, they kind of altered their opinions in line with the ideological 21 bias of the new story rather than necessarily being negative answer 22 choice. B says Twitter users opinions changed somewhat towards favoring 23 the articles position on the policy area. 24 That's exactly correct. So it's not the case that Twitter users opinions always became 25 more negative or more positive. It's just that they moved in the direction that ...