|Question 10Verbal

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Researchers who study olfaction-the sense of smell-define valence as a person's perception of how pleasant an odor is. Conventional wisdom holds that valence is culturally mediated. A team of scientists led by Artin Arshamian evaluated this view by testing how people from ten different places-including the Mah Meri people from a small community in the Malay Peninsula and the Seri people from a small community in Mexico-ranked ten odors from most pleasant to least pleasant. In general, respondents ranked scents similarly regardless of where they lived, overwhelmingly choosing the odorant linalool as more pleasant than diethyl disulfide. These results show that _____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
the conventional belief that odor pleasantness can be objectively measured is questionable.
A
the standard view of culture's role in olfactory valence may be unsound.
B
the respondents agreed more often on unpleasant odors than they did on pleasant ones.
C
valence may affect cultural traditions more strongly than researchers had previously predicted.
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