(August 22, 2012 at 9:48 am)jonb Wrote: No, even if what you were saying was true, the questions would have to be exact, a term like 'black pushy people' can easily be misinterpreted by someone glancing at a question not seeing the significance of black, and giving an answer, and 0.1 would only need 1 in a thousand to do that.
Clive: You seem to constantly make the same mistake, you think as you know the equation you have the answer 1+1=2 but if the terms are erroneous, it does not matter about the maths. For instance one herd of cows plus one herd of cows makes one herd of cows, true the herd might be larger, but you put the two together and you get one.
But we're not trying to infer whether everyone had the same (or similar) understanding of the question; we're trying to infer what proportion of people would give a particular answer.
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