Van says that his 48-year-old Catholic uncle will marry his 23-year-old atheist girlfriend next year ...

Van says that his 48-year-old Catholic uncle will marry his 23-year-old atheist girlfriend next year in order to prove that the social regularity that people tend to marry people like themselves is not accurate. What is your best response as a methodologist?
 
  a. The objection that social regularities could be upset through the conscious will of the actors is not a serious challenge to social science
  b. Van's uncle is simply an exception to the rule
  c. This regularity is too trivial to be meaningful
  d. We need to develop a measure for marry people like themselves
  e. It's a mistake that Van's uncle may regret in the future