Scientist: A number of errors can plague a data-collection process. Since examining the collected data enables resear...
AndrewArabieNovember 11, 2022
Hard to understand
When the stimulus said, "Jones' theory; that is, the majority of corrections result in the corrected data's being closer than the uncorrected data" I thought Jones' theory was everything after the comma. I thought Jones' theory was a theory about what happens when data is corrected. It took me forever to get this question because of that. Any ideas on how to not get confused again?
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Hi, I think there are two possible answers, neither of which I think will be particularly satisfying. First, I think the "that is" following the semicolon indicates the author is clarifying what they previously said, rather than introducing the theory. More so, I think this is where context may be helpful. Since the prior part of the passage is talking about data correction, I would probably link those two concepts together.
