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Roland: The alarming fact is that 90 percent of the people in this country now report that they know someone who is unemployed.
Sharon: But a normal, moderate level of unemployment Is 5 percent, with one out of 20 workers unemployed. So at any given time if a person knows approximately 50 workers, one or more will very likely be unemployed.
Sharon's argument relies on the assumption that .
(A) normal levels of unemployment are rarely
exceeded
(B) unemployment is not normally concentrated
in geographically isolated segments of the
population
(9 the number of people who each know
someone who is unemployed is always hj9her to* 90 percent of the population
(D) Roland is not consciously distorting the
statistics he presents
(E) knowledge that a personal acquaintance
isiunemployed generates more fear of losing one’s job than does knowledge of unemployment statistics
Please explain in a detailed way.
Sharon: But a normal, moderate level of unemployment Is 5 percent, with one out of 20 workers unemployed. So at any given time if a person knows approximately 50 workers, one or more will very likely be unemployed.
Sharon's argument relies on the assumption that .
(A) normal levels of unemployment are rarely
exceeded
(B) unemployment is not normally concentrated
in geographically isolated segments of the
population
(9 the number of people who each know
someone who is unemployed is always hj9her to* 90 percent of the population
(D) Roland is not consciously distorting the
statistics he presents
(E) knowledge that a personal acquaintance
isiunemployed generates more fear of losing one’s job than does knowledge of unemployment statistics
Please explain in a detailed way.
