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The doctor's conclusion is that we should restructure the workday to give people more flexibility in scheduling work hours. The premises offered are that most people are sleep deprived, and sleep deprivation causes many social ills.

The doctor assumes that allowing more flexible work hours will help deal with the problem of sleep deprivation that has been identified. In other words, the assumption here is that having more flexible hours will allow people to sleep more, which will help fend off potential social ills from sleep deprivation.

The argument isn't about how many hours people work, just about giving people more flexibility in scheduling their working hours. If this answer choice were true, it might weaken the argument, because simply making working hours more flexible wouldn't reduce the problem of overwork.

This answer choice explains how giving workers more flexibility in scheduling hours would address the problem of sleep deprivation, by allowing them to get more sleep. This strengthens the argument.

We know from the premises that most people are sleep deprived, regardless of how much sleep they individually need. This answer choice doesn't tell us anything about the connection between making working hours more flexible and reducing sleep deprivation.

This answer choice talks about past trends in sleep deprivation, and about the overall hours worked in a week now versus in the past. Neither of these points is relevant to the argument about making daily work hours more flexible and reducing current sleep deprivation.

If anything, this would weaken the argument. The doctor is not saying we should reduce daily working hours, just that we should make it possible for workers to schedule them more flexibly. So if this answer choice were true, the doctor's proposed solution wouldn't help reduce sleep deprivation.

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