Explanation for Question 16 From the Reading Section on the 2021 March Sat
Question number 16, it can be reasonably incurred from the passage that the design 2 of the King's team's experiment made it less likely that what, 3 so King's teams experiment and their design. 4 And we want to know what effect that it actually had, 5 um, on this particular context. 6 So let's take a look back at, 7 um, how this experiment was designed and what the author chooses to emphasize 8 about the experiments design in particular. 9 Um, because there's a lot of different ways that this could kind of go. 10 We want to look at what about the research design that the author chooses 11 to maybe, um, 12 prioritize or focus on a bit more? 13 So the author focuses on being able to tell whether 14 particular stories were having an effect. 15 The author focuses on, um, 16 allowing the outlets kind of freedom to write whatever they wanted 17 outside the policy area. Um, 18 and this kind of randomness regarding which weeks the stories 19 would be run during. 20 So let's see if that kind of helps us with these answer choices choice 21 a says Twitter users would read more stories from participating news outlets than they 22 usually did. Um, that's not really something that's touched on. 23 We don't really see a concern that they would read more stories or less 24 stories. Um, as a result of this, 25 just that the content of the stories would be different choice. 26 Being used, media outlets would be able to choose which stories to publish outside 27 of treatment weeks. Um, 28 it's...