[Video] Q19: The author of the passage would most likely consider the information in chart 1 to be

Answer Choices

  • excellent evidence for the arguments made in the passage.

  • possibly accurate but too crude to be truly informative.

  • compelling but lacking in historical information.

  • representative of a perspective with which the author disagrees.

Explanation for Question 19 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Question 19 says the author of the process would, 2 would most likely consider the information in chart one to be wet. 3 So let's go look and see what chart one has to say first. 4 So if we look at chart one, it's the 2010 population tiers by Metro 5 size and it shows large Metro non-metro and small Metro. 6 And those percentages included there in the pie chart represent the share of the 7 population present in those areas. 8 But the key here is noticing that this is based on 2010, 9 and it's also based on a census, right? 10 A census records, the number of people and where those people come from. 11 So if we look back at what the author says in the first 12 paragraph, it says the 2010 census certainly did not turn up 13 evidence of a middle-class stampede to the nation's cities. 14 And then it goes on to say, when it comes to measuring demographic inversion, 15 Ross' census numbers are an ineffective blunt instrument. 16 So the fact that this chart comes from census data is 17 going to invalidate its results. 18 To some extent it's going to make them kind of iffy. 19 So let's see which answer choice in question 19 kind of conveys that 20 if Venus, so answer 21 choice a says that chart one would be excellent evidence for the arguments made 22 in the passage. So that's going to be incorrect if it's excellent evidence, 23 there's not going to be any degree of uncertainty there. 24 And so, like you said, there should be degree of uncertainty because it's based 25 on census data....

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