Why do you think people try to fit the pieces of information they perceive into a familiar pattern?

So they can figure something out by actions

so they are organised of what there doing so then when they wanna answer it or solve it they know were to look

Explanation:

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even though you have attached neither the chart nor the generalizations, i have located them online. the right answer is d, since they are asking you about a generalization. you can only infer from the chart that between 2008 and 2009 the number of employed workers decreased significantly (from over 115 millions to 107 millions approximately), which signals some type of economic crisis.