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Explanation

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  • Raghnall uses survey data (money listed as a major problem by over half of divorcing couples) to conclude that financial problems are the major problem in marriages and contribute to divorce rates.
  • The author objects: couples may express other marital frustrations in financial terms.
  • Therefore, the data don’t establish that financial problems are the major problem.

The author doesn’t offer a specific counterexample (A), doesn’t say emotions can’t be proven statistically (C), doesn’t criticize the survey itself (D), and doesn’t say couples can’t accurately describe their own problems in general (E).

Instead, the author offers an alternative explanation for the same data: what looks like “money problems” might actually be other frustrations expressed in financial terms. That’s B.

Answer: B
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