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The Need for Simplier Examples
Submitted by johnbrandy on Tue, 2008-06-03 21:57.
It is clear, intuitively, that the way a question is posed can effect the answer. The "shaping" of questions is a technique that lawyers, politicians, litigators, and others use to encourage desired answers. From a pedagogic perspective, it is usually needful to offer the "simplest" example to illustrate a point. Complex questions, like the ones in the article require a degree of sophistication that I suggest can confuse or skew the results. Genuinely astute individuals will likely perceive that the questions are the same. Less sophisticated individuals may not. Therefore the way a question is asked, and the answer that results is determined, in part, by the degree of complexity of the questions and the sophistication of the participants.It seems clear that questions at various degrees of complexity and recorded answers; provided by individuals at various level of education, and fields of study is necessary in order to access the value and validity of the premise that the way a question is asked will affect the answer. Thank you.

