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    ![Chart](http://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/assets/4304781/Screen_Shot_2014-04-15_at_6.49.54_PM.png)

    [New SAT Sample questions](http://www.vox.com/2014/4/16/5618300/could-you-pass-the-new-sat-try-these-4-sample-questions) Originally from [The Atlantic](http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/the-american-commuter-spends-38-hours-a-year-stuck-in-traffic/272905/)
    [New SAT Sample questions](http://www.vox.com/2014/4/16/5618300/could-you-pass-the-new-sat-try-these-4-sample-questions). Chart and story originally from [The Atlantic](http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/the-american-commuter-spends-38-hours-a-year-stuck-in-traffic/272905/)

    See anything wrong with this SAT test question?

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    See anything wrong with this SAT test question?

    There's no correct answer because there's no option for none of the above. The question writer seems to want C to be the correct answer but that's a sloppy, too fast and imprecise interpretation of the chart.
    There's no correct answer! The question writer seems to want C to be the correct answer but that's a sloppy, too fast and imprecise interpretation of the chart.

    "Automobile commuter" is not the same thing as "commuter". And "in 2011" is not the same thing as annually.

    That kind of reasoning is endemic to public misunderstanding of data. Let's hope they'll be more careful with the real questions.
    This kind of sloppiness is endemic to public misunderstanding of data. Let's hope they'll be more careful with the real questions.
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    # If SAT questions can't interpret charts correctly, what hope do the rest of us have? #

    ![Chart](http://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/assets/4304781/Screen_Shot_2014-04-15_at_6.49.54_PM.png)

    [New SAT Sample questions](http://www.vox.com/2014/4/16/5618300/could-you-pass-the-new-sat-try-these-4-sample-questions) Originally from [The Atlantic](http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/the-american-commuter-spends-38-hours-a-year-stuck-in-traffic/272905/)

    See anything wrong with this SAT test question?

    There's no correct answer because there's no option for none of the above. The question writer seems to want C to be the correct answer but that's a sloppy, too fast and imprecise interpretation of the chart.

    "Automobile commuter" is not the same thing as "commuter". And "in 2011" is not the same thing as annually.

    That kind of reasoning is endemic to public misunderstanding of data. Let's hope they'll be more careful with the real questions.