Reading & WritingChapter 3: Command of Evidence
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3-7: What should you read first: claim or every number?
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The claim. It tells you which variables and relationship matter.
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3-7: Absolute increase from 20 to 30?
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10.
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3-7: Percent increase from 20 to 30?
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50%, because 10 ÷ 20 = 0.50.
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3-7: Percentage-point increase from 20% to 30%?
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10 percentage points.
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3-7: Count versus percentage?
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A count is a number of cases; a percentage is a proportion relative to a denominator.
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3-7: Can one year support ‘across five years’?
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Usually not; evidence scope should match the full-period claim.
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3-7: Largest number is strongest evidence—true?
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False. Relevance to the stated relationship comes first.
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3-7: What is percentage/count confusion?
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Treating a percent value as a number of participants or vice versa.
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3-7: Why avoid extra calculation?
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It increases error risk and can shift attention away from evidence reasoning.
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3-7: Seven-step data checklist in brief?
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Claim, variables, labels/units, exact values, comparison, match, wording audit.
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3-7: What official SAT skill contains this topic?
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Information and Ideas → Command of Evidence. This topic is an internal teaching subdivision, not a separate official skill.
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3-7: Is this Textual or Quantitative practice?
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Primarily Command of Evidence—Quantitative.
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3-7: What is the central focus?
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using a claim to select variables, measures, values, and comparisons across tables and graphs
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3-7: What does relevant evidence look like?
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The exact data relationship required by the claim, expressed with accurate values and units.
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3-7: Give an irrelevant-evidence pattern.
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A large or interesting number that does not test the named relationship.
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3-7: What scope rule matters most?
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Claims across years or groups need evidence across the same years or groups.
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3-7: What verification step prevents errors?
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Recalculate only what is necessary and audit every number in the option.
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3-7: Support means prove—true or false?
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False. Evidence may strengthen or be consistent with a claim without establishing certainty.
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3-7: What is the minimum-assumption rule?
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Prefer the evidence that reaches the supplied claim most directly with the fewest unstated bridges.
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3-7: Command of Evidence versus Inferences?
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Command of Evidence gives the claim and asks for evidence; Inferences gives evidence and asks for the conclusion.
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