Career consultant: The most popular career advice suggests emphasizing one's strengths to employers and downplaying one's weaknesses. Research shows this advice to be incorrect. A study of 314 managers shows that those who use self-deprecating humor in front of their employees are more likely to be seen by them as even-handed, thoughtful, and concerned than are those who do not.
Question: The career consultant's reasoning is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it
Options:
A. bases a conclusion about how one group will respond to self-deprecation on information about how a different group responds to it
B. ignores the possibility that what was viewed positively in the managers' self-deprecating humor was the self-deprecation and not its humor
C. ignores the possibility that non-self-deprecating humor might have been viewed even more positively than self-deprecating humor
D. infers from the fact that self-deprecating humor was viewed positively that nonhumorous self-deprecation would not be viewed positively
E. bases a conclusion about certain popular career advice on a critique of only one part of that advice
Answer: A