One Concern About the Wording of Questions in Polls Is

question 42

Multiple Choice

One concern about the wording of questions in polls is that the person being sampled will be unfamiliar with a subject and thereby ______.

• A) never participate in a poll again
• B) inflate the "don't know" category, making the results meaningless
• C) refuse to answer the question
• D) be unlikely to finish the polling session
• E) give responses solely based on cues picked up from the context of the interview or the question

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