The supervisor of a hotel housekeeping staff instructed a new housekeeper in the 45 ways a room must be cleaned if its guest has checked out but she forgot to mention that a less thorough method was to be used if the guest was staying additional nights. The next month the supervisor wonders why the new housekeeper is using many more packets of toiletries than the other housekeepers are. Also, it is taking the housekeeper the same amount of time to clean a recently vacated room as it does to clean a room that will be housing the same people for another night. The best explanation for the misunderstanding about the service to be provided by the housekeeper is ________, a risk incurred when services are described in words alone.
A. Incompleteness
B. Transformation
C. Biased interpretation
D. Subjectivity
E. Oversimplification
Answer: A
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