[Video] Q17: Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

Explanation for Question 17 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

Question 17 asks which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the 2 previous question. So we determined in an earlier video that the correct answer to 3 question 16 is going to be answered choice C that cats would characterize 4 or cats. His attitude can be characterized as uncertain, 5 how today's digital technologies might affect job growth. 6 So let's look at the lines of evidence given to us as answer choices 7 in question 17 and see which one best supports this idea. 8 So we're looking for any degree of uncertainty based on or surrounding 9 today's digital technologies. So we'll start with answer choice a, 10 it says cats has done extensive research on how technological advances have affected jobs 11 over the last few centuries. Describing for example, 12 how highly skilled artisans in the mid 19th century were displaced by lower skilled 13 workers in factories. So answer choice a doesn't have any of that uncertainty 14 that we're looking for, right? 15 It actually indicates maybe a degree of certainty or saying that he's done extensive 16 research on this kind of stuff. So answer choice a would not do the 17 job of supporting the correct answer for question 16. 18 If we look at B, it says, while it can take decades for workers 19 to acquire the expertise needed for new types of employment, 20 he says we never have run out of jobs. 21 So again, like answer choice, a B doesn't have any indication of uncertainty 22 surrounding today's digital technologies. 23 ...