SAT Reading & Writing · Cross-Text Connections
**Text 1** Several cash-transfer experiments providing unconditional payments to participants have found little average reduction in…
**Text 1**
Several cash-transfer experiments providing unconditional payments to participants have found little average reduction in overall employment among recipients compared to a control group that did not receive payments.
**Text 2**
Closer analysis of the same kinds of programs has found modest reductions in hours worked for some specific groups of recipients, alongside increases in time spent on education, caregiving, or searching for a better job.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the findings in Text 1 and Text 2?
Several cash-transfer experiments providing unconditional payments to participants have found little average reduction in overall employment among recipients compared to a control group that did not receive payments.
**Text 2**
Closer analysis of the same kinds of programs has found modest reductions in hours worked for some specific groups of recipients, alongside increases in time spent on education, caregiving, or searching for a better job.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the findings in Text 1 and Text 2?
Answer and explanation
Answer: B: Text 2 provides a more detailed look within the same general pattern reported in Text 1, identifying specific subgroup effects that a simple average could mask.
Text 2 doesn't dispute the overall average finding in Text 1; it looks more closely within that average and finds real, if modest, variation for specific subgroups, exactly the kind of detail an average can obscure. B captures this refining, not contradicting, relationship. A overstates the relationship into direct contradiction, which the "modest reductions for some groups" language doesn't support against an "average" finding. C misreads the clearly connected research. D overstates Text 2 into an extreme, universal claim it doesn't make.
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