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 1 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
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Anormal levels of unemployment are rarely exceeded
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Bunemployment is not normally concentrated in geographically isolated segments of the population
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Cthe number of people who each know someone who is unemployed is always higher than 90 percent of the population
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DRoland is not consciously distorting the statistics he presents
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Eknowledge that a personal acquaintance is unemployed generates more fear of losing one`s job than does knowledge of unemployment statistics
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正确答案: B