Explanation for Question 17 From the Reading Section on the 2021 March Sat
Question 17, the passage most strongly suggests that which additional study would 2 help to determine more precisely the extent to which news media outlets shape public 3 opinion. So we're looking at how news media outlets shape public opinion. 4 We want to know which additional study would probably be useful. 5 So, um, let's take a look at kind of what they talk about in 6 terms of extending the results of their study. 7 They talk about how they compared Postbank men and women, 8 different us regions, different political orientations. 9 So let's take a look at maybe what they didn't examine and see if 10 any of that would be worthy of future research. 11 Um, they say that they're kind of commenting on what would have happened if 12 they recruited larger mainstream outlets and what might've happened, 13 the spike in discussions, if they had done that, 14 um, they also kind of focus on this idea 15 of maybe what would have happened among Americans who don't use Twitter, 16 um, removing larger outlets from the analysis. 17 So maybe something like that would be an area of future research. 18 Let's take a look, a says a study that examines how influential news media 19 is are to people who do not participate in social media. 20 That lines up really nicely with what they're saying, 21 kind of about the fact that their, 22 their results only applied to Twitter users. 23 So they're interested in maybe what would happen amongst populations that don't use Twitter 24 as much. Um, so ch...