[Video] Q44: Which choice most effectively signals the comparison the writer is making between the two groups mentioned?

Explanation for Question 44 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

44 says which choice most effectively signals the comparison 2 the writer is making between the two groups mentioned. 3 Okay. So let's identify what that comparison is. 4 So 44, the sentence says the researchers also suggest that not 5 unlike people who get caught up in the excitement of the story, 6 when reading it about in the newspaper, the American public may have been willing 7 to embrace the legend because of its appeal to the imagination. 8 So that's the comparison there. The two groups that are mentioned are one 9 people who get caught up in the excitement of the story when reading about 10 it in the paper, that's the first group of people. 11 The second group of people is the American public who may 12 have been willing to embrace the legend because of its appeal to the imagination. 13 So those are our two groups here. 14 It looks like the comparison is made, that is being made is that this 15 first group is similar to the second group because 16 the first group is about people who get excited. 17 Reading about a story in the news. The second group is about what 18 actually happened in the passage, the American public, 19 who was excited to believe this legend because of its appeal to 20 the imagination. So pretty much both of these groups of people, 21 they get excited about what they're reading or hearing about. 22 So it looks like the comparison is trying to show that these two groups 23 are similar they're alike. 24 Let's look at our options now in the no change ...