Explanation for Question 21 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 6
It's 10 21 says the 2011 data in the table, 2 best serve as evidence of what. So let's look at the data table and 3 kind of get an idea of the opinions in 2011. 4 And then we can talk about the evidence that it matches. 5 So we can assess each of these categories, 6 accuracy, fairness, and bias. So the first one we see that more people 7 are convinced that the N the news is inaccurate. 8 So we have inaccurate for our first judgment. 9 If we look at the second one, we can see that 80% of people 10 believe that they're influenced by powerful people and 11 organizations. So they're not independent, 12 they're dependent. 13 And then the last one where we talk about bias, 14 we can see that 77% of people believe that the news 15 is biased, and we read it in the passage and can understand as people 16 that all of these things regarding the news and the source of public knowledge 17 are pretty, not so great things, 18 right? If it's inaccurate, if it's highly influenced, 19 if it's highly biased, that's going to be a problem. 20 So let's look at the answer choices and see which one indicates 21 best the negative connotation here, 22 and also the gravity of the negative connotation. 23 So if we look at answer choice a, 24 it says political disengagement by the majority, 25 in this case answer choice a is going to be incorrect because this isn't 26 showing political disengagement. This is showing distrust, 27 right? People, if people disengage, 28 they're not going to care. So there w...