Craft and StructureVery hardTwo views on the replication of taste studies
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Across dozens of studies, drinkers rate the identical wine more highly when the bottle bears a prestigious label — evidence that taste is constructed as much from expectation as from the glass.
Text 2
Look at who swirled the glasses: mostly undergraduates with little tasting history, for whom the label was the only information they could use. Among experienced tasters, the label's pull shrinks toward nothing. The studies may document not how taste works, but how novices behave when expertise is absent.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?
- A. Text 2 contends that the effect Text 1 describes may be an artifact of who participates in the studies.Correct
- B. Text 2 reports that the effect grows stronger outside the laboratory.
- C. Both texts agree the studies used too few participants.
- D. Text 1 describes wine studies, while Text 2 describes coffee studies.
Answer: A. Text 2 contends that the effect Text 1 describes may be an artifact of who participates in the studies.
Text 1 presents the label effect as general; Text 2 notes the samples were novice undergraduates and that experienced tasters show little of the effect — a participant artifact.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Text 2 reports that the effect grows stronger outside the laboratory.
- Text 2 says the effect shrinks with expertise, not that it grows elsewhere.
- C. Both texts agree the studies used too few participants.
- Sample size is not raised in either text; sample composition is.
- D. Text 1 describes wine studies, while Text 2 describes coffee studies.
- Both texts discuss the same wine-label research.
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