Section: Verbal

43) Which of the following best completes the passage below?

In a survey of job applicants, two-fifths admitted to being at least a little dishonest. However, the survey may underestimate the proportion of job applicants who are dishonest, because _____.

1. some generally honest people taking the survey might have claimed on the survey to be dishonest
2. some people who claimed on the survey to be dishonest may have been answering honestly
3. some people who claimed on the survey to be at least a little dishonest may be very dishonest
4. some dishonest people taking the survey might have claimed on the survey to be honest
5. some people who are not job applicants are probably at least a little dishonest

If applicants who are in fact dishonest claimed to be honest, the survey results would show a smaller proportion of dishonest applicants than actually exists.