SAT Inferences Question

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Question 1 · Medium · Reading and WritingNovember 2024 Batch 2 · Q13Inferences · 0 solved

To understand consumer loyalty to specific online retailers, Marina Zizakov and colleagues conducted a survey using 58 statements as proxy indicators of customer experience with receiving online purchases. The statements were categorized by topic; for example,, statement 13, "I am eagerly awaiting the delivery of the ordered items," was categorized as joyful anticipation -and respondents, all of whom were from Serbia (which is characterized as having a developing economy), rated the importance of each statement to their experience. Researchers found that participants placed low importance on package aesthetics and high importance on speedy delivery and package tracking, but the researchers cautioned against applying the findings to customers generally, suggesting that Which choice most logically completes the text?

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Strategy

When a question asks you to complete a research claim, look for the logic behind the researchers’ caution. Ask what limitation of the sample would make the findings hard to generalize, and choose the option that matches that limitation without overextending the result.

Hints (open one at a time)

Hint 1

Focus on why the researchers would hesitate to apply one country’s survey results to customers in general.

Hint 2

Look for an option that mentions a need for broader or more varied participants, especially across different economic contexts.

Hint 3

The best completion should support the warning about generalizing beyond the Serbian sample, not make a new prediction or change the issue to sample size alone.

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The trap here

Inferences: the answer you knew before you read the passage — SAT inference answers must follow from the text alone. Outside knowledge is how the tempting wrong choices get chosen.