[求助]请分析一下这题

小兵张嘎

Handwriting analysis—also known as graphology—is a poor way to predict personality types, even though it is used by 3,000 United States firms and by a majority of European companies. In a recent study, five graphologists scored no better than chance in predicting the occupations of forty professionals.
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Which one of the following is an assumption necessary to the argument?

(A) People in the same occupation usually do not have the same personality type.
(B) Graphology is an effective means of predicting personality types in non-business contexts.
(C) There are more United States firms that do not use graphology than all the United States and European firms that do use it.
(D) There are several other techniques for predicting personality types that are more accurate than graphology.
(E) There is a correspondence between type of personality and choice of occupation.

lewis

I have almost fogot how to solve this problem. Let me try.

The evidence of the text is that " In a recent study, five graphologists scored no better than chance in predicting the occupations of forty professionals."===>The conclusion is that "Handwriting analysis is a poor way to predict personality types"

If (E) is not true, the linkage between the evidence and the conclusion is definately broken. So, (E) is an assumption of the reasoning of the text.

My two cents

shany

该题是标准的概念跳跃。前提occupation偷换为personality.