A writer is editing a draft of an essay about the history of meteorology. Read the passage and answer the question that follows.
[1] In the mid-nineteenth century, meteorology was a fragmented field, relying on isolated observers who recorded local weather conditions without any coordination. [2] British polymath Francis Galton realized that understanding weather patterns required analyzing simultaneous observations across a wide geographical area. [3] In 1861, he distributed standardized recording kits to observers across Europe, asking them to document barometric pressure, wind direction, and temperature at three specific times each day. [4] Galton was also a cousin of Charles Darwin and made significant contributions to the field of statistics. [5] By plotting this synchronized data onto a map using custom-designed symbols, Galton created the first modern weather map, revealing previously invisible atmospheric systems like anticyclones.
The writer is considering deleting Sentence 4 from the passage. Should the sentence be kept or deleted?
- Akept, because it establishes Galton's scientific credentials and links him to other prominent researchers of the nineteenth century.
- Bkept, because it explains the statistical methodology Galton applied to the weather data collected from observers across Europe.
- deleted, because it interrupts the focus on Galton's development of the weather map with tangential details about his family and other academic interests.Cevap
- Ddeleted, because it contradicts the paragraph's assertion that mid-nineteenth-century meteorology was a fragmented field.