PSYB01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Semantic Differential, Social Desirability Bias, Loaded Question
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How many times last week did you exercise for 20 minutes or longer? how many children do you plan to have? have you ever been so depressed that you called in sick to work? . Further, the term myocardial infarction may be unfamiliar: the following considerations are important to keep in mind when you are writing questions, unnecessary complexity: questions should be relatively simple. Sometimes, however, you have to make the question a bit more complex to make it easier to understand. Usually this occurs when you need to de ne a term or an issue prior to asking the question: double-barrelled questions: avoid double-barrelled questions that ask two things at once. Ask two questions in this case: loaded questions: a loaded question is written to lead people to respond in one way. The problem here is that the respondent may in fact be expressing true agreement, but alternatively may simply be agreeing with anything you ask.
