Roland: The alarming fact is that 90 percent of thepeople in this country now report that they know someone who is unemployed.
Sharon: But a normal, moderate level of unemploymentis 5 percent, with 1 out of 20 workers unemployed. So at any given time if a person knowsapproximately 50 workers, 1 or more will very likely be unemployed.
Sharon's argumentrelies on the assumption that
(A) normallevels of unemployment are rarely exceeded
(B) unemployment is not normally concentrated in geographically isolated segments of the population
(C) thenumber of people who each know someone who is unemployed is always higher than90% of the population
(D) Rolandis not consciously distorting the statistics he presents