SAT OwlIn the 1850s, Florence Nightingale used carefully designed charts to show that more British soldiers in the Crimean War were dying from preventable diseases than from battle wounds, and her diagrams helped persuade officials to improve hospital sanitation. ______ in 1854, physician John Snow used a map of cholera deaths in London to trace an outbreak to a single contaminated water pump.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
In contrast,
As a result,
Similarly,
Instead,
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Answer: C
Both Nightingale and Snow used visual displays of data to understand deaths from disease. The second sentence describes a parallel case, so "Similarly" is correct. Snow's map was not caused by Nightingale's charts, which rules out "As a result."
"As a result" suggests Nightingale's charts led to Snow's map, but the text gives no causal link between them.
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