Workers may complain about many things at work, but stress is not high on the list. In fact, in a recent survey a majority placed boredom at the top of their list of complaints. The assumption that job-related stress is the most serious problem for workers in the corporate world is thus simply not warranted.
Which one of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
The first point to note is that boredom is a self-generated state of mind and is the stepping-stone to stress in a working environment.
(A) Those workers who are responsible for the planning and supervision of long-term projects are less likely to complain of either boredom or stress. -- The prompt does not talk about long-term projects in the survey. The survey was a general survey about job satisfaction.
(B) Workers who complain of boredom exhibit more stress-related symptoms than do those who claim their work is interesting. This finding weakens the argument. --- B is the choice.
(C) Workers responding to opinion surveys tend to emphasize those experiences that have happened most recently. --recentness is not given in the prompt.
(D) Workers who feel that their salaries are commensurate with the amount of work they do are less likely to complain of boredom. -- Salaries not given
(E) Workers are less likely to complain about work if they feel that their jobs are secure. -- Security of the job is outside the scope
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