Thursday, September 24, 2009

Begging the (human rights) questions

Interesting piece on how questions can skew answers.

Information on human rights depends heavily on opinion surveys. Unfortunately, surveys can be wrong and misleading for so many different reasons that we have to be very careful when designing surveys and when using and interpreting survey data. One reason...is the framing of the questions. Even very small differences in framing can produce widely divergent answers. And there is a wide variety of problems linked to the framing of questions. More...

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