Explanation for Question 23 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 6
Question 23 says as presented in the passage, 2 Dyson Adler's research primarily relied on which type of evidence. 3 So let's look into the passage person context here and see if we can 4 find any evidence supporting the ideas of direct observation, 5 historical data, expert testimony, 6 and random sampling. So if we look back to where they talked about and 7 kind of outlined to their research method, starting right there at the top of 8 the second column, you can see we're not going to read all the way 9 through, but basically they're just planting these, 10 uh, gourd plants. And then they're controlling the amount of beetles and the amount 11 of fragrance that they exhibit. And so the only answer choice that we find 12 evidence of is that direct observation. 13 It says starting in line 61, 14 as soon as they did the team spent the next several hours walking from 15 flower to flower, observing each for two minute intervals and writing down everything we 16 saw. 17 So you can see it based on this kind of little snippet of information 18 that their data collection is coming directly from this observation 19 that they're talking about. And so they're observing the flowers and then writing down 20 what they see here. So if you look back at the answer choices, 21 we can just go through each of these little, 22 um, answers. So we still had that direct observation was correct 23 here. And we saw why that is. 24 If we talk about historical data, 25 right? They're not using any kind ...