SAT Reading & Writing · Cross-Text Connections
**Text 1** For years, pediatric guidance recommended that parents of infants at high risk for food allergies avoid introducing peanut…
**Text 1**
For years, pediatric guidance recommended that parents of infants at high risk for food allergies avoid introducing peanut products until the child was older, based on the assumption that early exposure could trigger an allergic reaction.
**Text 2**
A landmark clinical trial that randomly assigned high-risk infants to either early peanut introduction or continued avoidance found that the infants who were introduced to peanut products early had a dramatically lower rate of peanut allergy later in childhood compared to those who avoided peanut.
Based on the texts, which statement best characterizes the relationship between the traditional guidance in Text 1 and the finding in Text 2?
For years, pediatric guidance recommended that parents of infants at high risk for food allergies avoid introducing peanut products until the child was older, based on the assumption that early exposure could trigger an allergic reaction.
**Text 2**
A landmark clinical trial that randomly assigned high-risk infants to either early peanut introduction or continued avoidance found that the infants who were introduced to peanut products early had a dramatically lower rate of peanut allergy later in childhood compared to those who avoided peanut.
Based on the texts, which statement best characterizes the relationship between the traditional guidance in Text 1 and the finding in Text 2?
Answer and explanation
Answer: C: Text 2 presents evidence that directly overturned the assumption underlying the traditional guidance described in Text 1, for the specific high-risk population studied.
Text 2's randomized comparison directly tested the assumption behind Text 1's guidance and found the opposite of what that guidance assumed, avoidance producing worse outcomes than introduction, specifically among the high-risk infants studied. C captures both the reversal and its defined scope. A states the opposite of what actually happened. B misreads the clearly connected topics. D contradicts Text 2, which reports a successful preventive approach.
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