Answer Choices
the results of related studies will be misleading.
researchers may overlook promising areas of study.
mistakes in the collection of null results may be overlooked.
the bias against null results will be disregarded.
Lines 38-40 (“Their . . . expectations”)
Lines 48-50 (“However . . . finding”)
Lines 56-59 (“He and . . . ineffective”)
Lines 59-62 (“Worse . . . ignored”)
Explanation for Questions 14, 15 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8
Okay, so 14, 15 or buy-one-get-one-free questions. 2 So we're going to do them together. We're going to read the stem of 3 14. We're going to find the evidence answer 15 first and then go back 4 and match the evidence or the answer for 15 with the answer for 14. 5 So we ended up answering 14 last. 6 Okay. So this is the passage indicates, indicates means that you're going to find 7 the evidence in the passage that a problem with failing to document the no 8 results in what, so I remember there was a part of this passage where, 9 um, there was an entire paragraph that talked about the dangers of failing to 10 document the Knoll. So if we go back, 11 um, what are the dangers of failing document that no, let's remind ourselves it's 12 all in this paragraph. We know that because we made a main idea for 13 the section that basically said, this is the section or the paragraph that 14 documents the dangerous. 15 So, um, well, why don't you waste my time and money because you'll be 16 replicating ineffective strategies. That's one thing. 17 Um, another thing is if you publish different results of similar 18 experience in the future, they look stronger than they should have been. 19 So it kind of makes your results look misleading. 20 And so, yeah, it's basically misleading and it's also a waste 21 of time in energy for other experimenters who end up using the same wrong 22 method. Um, so what is the answer to 14? 23 So we have options here. The results of religious study will be misl...