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ACT Science: Data Representation Passage Drill 1, Problem 1. What do the statistics in Figure 1 suggest?

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ACT Science: Data Representation Passage Drill 1, Problem 2. Which of the following is a variable in Figure 1, but not in Figure 2?

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ACT Science: Data Representation Passage Drill 1, Problem 3. What is the strong correlation between weight and a player's salary?

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ACT Science: Data Representation Passage Drill 3, Problem 2. After what year in the graph is the scientist's model most accurate at predicting birth year?

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Here’s your shmoop du jour, brought to you by birth predictions.

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For example, we totally predicted that you'd be born.

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Yeah, we called it.

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After what year in the graph is the scientist's model most accurate at predicting birth year?

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And here are the potential answers...

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Okay, so which graph is

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hitting the nail on the head when it comes to birth year.

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Figure 1 shows that the amount of carbon-14 (14C) in an individual's eye related to the

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amount of 14C in the atmosphere at the time of that individual's birth.

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That’s not the one we want at all.

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So we should refer to figure 2, because the question is asking about predicting birth year.

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Figure 2 just happens to be all about predictions.

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The perfectly diagonal red line shows the ideal 1:1 ratio between the predicted and

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actual years of birth. In other words, the dots would be on that red line if the scientists

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were psychics and could predict the patients’ actual years of birth.

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For this question, we’re interested in which red dots are closest to this red line.

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After 1960, the dots seem to hug the line pretty closely,

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but before 1960, they are relatively far away.

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Guess the dots and the lines saw a couple’s therapist to work out their problems.

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Since the dots are closest to the line only after 1960,

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the model is most accurate at making predictions after 1960.

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So our answer’s C.

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