Madhu Veeraraghavan suggests that exposure to
sunshine during the workday can lead to overly optimistic behavior. Using data spanning from 1994 to 2010 for a set of US companies, the team compared over 29,000 annual earnings forecasts to the actual earnings later reported by those companies. The team found that the greater the exposure to sunshine at work in the two weeks before a manager submitted an earnings forecast, the more the manager's forecast exceeded what the company actually earned that year.
Which choice best states the function of the underlined sentence in the overall structure of the text?
A) To summarize the results of the team's analysis
B) To present a specific example that illustrates the study's findings
C) To explain part of the methodology used in the team's study
D) To call out a challenge the team faced in conducting its analysis