Question ID:PT15 S2 Q24 Passage:People were asked in a survey how old they felt. They replied, almost unanimously despite a great diversity of ages, with a number that was 75 percent of their real age. There is, however, a problem in understanding this sort of response. For example, suppose it meant that a 48-year-old man was claiming to feel as he felt at 36. But at age 36 he would have said he felt like a man of 27, and at 27 he would have said he felt just over 20 and so on into childhood. And surely, that 48-year-old man did not mean to suggest that he felt like a child! Stem:Which one of the following techniques of reasoning is employed in the argument? Correct Answer Choice:AChoice A:projecting from responses collected at one time from many individuals of widely different ages to hypothetical earlier responses of a single individual at some of those ages Choice B:reinterpreting what certain people actually said in the light of what would, in the circumstances, have been the most reasonable thing for them to say Choice C:qualifying an overly sweeping generalization in light of a single, well chosen counterexample Choice D:deriving a contradiction from a pair of statements in order to prove that at least one of those statements is false Choice E:analyzing an unexpected unanimity among respondents as evidence, not of a great uniformity of opinion among those respondents, but of their successful manipulation by their questioners