2.Jeff and Sharon recently met on social media. Sharon is 36 years old and is working at a fast-food restaurant making minimum wage. Jeff is a 23-year-old
Harvard University graduate with a nice, new career, and he makes a lot more money
than Sharon does. Jeff claims that he is much more successful than Sharon despite
being thirteen years younger than she is, and he tells his friend Martha that Sharon
must be lazy and lacked ambition. Sharon, in turn, claims that Jeff clearly has lived a
privileged life. She tells her friend Mario that Jeff cannot possibly understand what
it's like to be poor in this society.
a. Identify an assumption made by Jeff in the above example. What makes this an
assumption rather than a fact?
b. Identify an assumption made by Sharon in the above example. What makes this
an assumption rather than a fact?