A commentary on the 'sentence superiority effect': Almost certainly guessing, not parallel interactive activation

This brief commentary addresses the question of what reading researchers and psycholinguists should make of the 'sentence superiority effect' (SSE) first reported by Snell and Grainger (2017), and explored in additional papers by the same group (Massol & Grainger, 2021; Massol, Mirault, & Grainger, 2021; Wen, Snell, & Grainger, 2019). The main conclusion is that Snell and Grainger's results from a 2AFC version of their task, reported in a footnote, tell us that the SSE is most likely due to a simple guessing strategy.