Explanation for Question 20 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 6
10 20 says what statement is best supported by information presented in the table. 2 So let's just simply go through each answer choice here and see if we 3 can support it. So answer choice a says between 1985 and 2011, 4 the proportion of inaccurate news stories rose dramatically. 5 So if we look back at the table, we can see based on the 6 title here that all this table is measuring, 7 is the percentage of respondents seeing your stories as inaccurate or favoring one side. 8 So this doesn't indicate any concrete information about whether or not new stories are 9 actually getting the facts straight or being an accurate, 10 it's just indicating the opinions of people, 11 the percentage of respondents that believe such things. 12 So answer choice a, we wouldn't be able to prove based on what's given 13 in this table, just because it's not giving us the right information to be 14 able to prove this answer. 15 So then if we look at answer choice B, it says between 1992 and 16 2003, the proportion of people who believe the news organizations were biased was 17 almost doubled. So 1992, 18 in 2003, and then believing the news organizations were biased. 19 So if we're talking about bias here, 20 we're going to look at this bottom thing because it's talking about 21 dealing fairly on all sides or tending to favor one side. 22 So between 1992 and 2003, 23 which are the second and third column bias would be indicated here. 24 And we can see that those numbers are actually pretty steady...