Traditionally, decision making by governmental policy makers

Traditionally, decision making by governmental policy makers that is based on solid statistical evidence has been considered preferable to more seat-of-the-pants, intuitive decision making. However, a recent study found that top governmental policy makers use intuition far more often than low-level governmental policy makers. This strongly supports the opposite view that decision making using intuition is more effective than decision making based on statistical evidence.

The conclusion above is based on which of the following assumptions?

A. The use of statistics is often inappropriate for making fast decisions in real life.
B. Top governmental policy makers have the ability to make decisions based on statistical evidence or intuition.
C. Low-level governmental policy makers make decisions based on intuition some of the time.
D. Top governmental policy makers use intuitive reasoning in the majority of their important decisions.
E. Top governmental policy makers are more effective at decision making than are low-level governmental policy makers.