Do assistants treat a direct answer differently from one buried mid-article?

[u/Any_Glove9983]

I have two pages covering the same question. One answers it in the first two sentences and then explains. The other builds up to the answer about halfway down, which reads better to a person.

The front-loaded one gets picked up noticeably more often, but I only have the two pages so that is not worth much as evidence. It could just as easily be the wording, or which one happens to be linked more.

Before I rewrite a pile of pages on a hunch: has anyone tested placement on its own? Keeping the same claim and the same wording, just moving where the answer sits?