A question about how one author would respond to another text tests whether you can connect their views. Use the question to identify who answers whom, since either author can do the answering. Then put each text's point and its reason into a few words. Ask whether one point rejects, limits, or carries the other further, and predict the response from that link. Wrong choices may give a reasonable response for a reason the answering author never offers.
Hints
- Hint 1
The question asks Text 1's author to respond to Text 2's challenge. Read Text 1 for that author's view of what lets other researchers check a study.
- Hint 2
In Text 2, look for what the scholars need but can't access. How does the final sentence connect that problem to their replication results?
- Hint 3
What would change for these scholars if the studies had followed the process Text 1 describes? Predict the response from that comparison.
Step-by-step
Apply Text 1's view
Step 1Start from Text 1's view
Text 1 links its journal policy to transparency and reproducibility, so let's use that author's view to answer Text 2's challenge. How does the policy make studies open to checking? Data are permanently archived in recognized repositories and cited, so other researchers can find, inspect, and reuse them.
- Step 2
Find the obstacle in Text 2
What keeps the scholars in Text 2 from checking the earlier experiments? The original data have been lost, are stored in obsolete formats, or were never formally archived at all. Researchers must rely on incomplete article descriptions, which often leave their replications inconclusive or contested. They lack usable original data.
- Step 3
Test the reasons for responding
These replication problems let Text 1's author add to the case for preserving data, using a new example to support the same point. Which proposed responses stay within that view? The response about detailed methods sections assumes a replacement for datasets that Text 1 never offers. A focus primarily on standardized file formats leaves out lost and unarchived data. The proposal to avoid requiring data sharing goes against the policy's goal and adds an unsupported claim that archiving discourages publication.
- Step 4
Connect the policy to the obstacle
Does the phrase directly addresses go beyond what Text 1 says? No: permanent archiving keeps data available, and having them clearly cited in the paper tells later researchers where to look. The policy addresses the kind of problem these scholars face, without claiming it can recover datasets already lost. Choice D.