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To: Lane3 who wrote (117457)	6/1/2005 12:14:50 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 793838

If you were designing a quiz like that, what technique would you use to determine the relative intensity of the responses? In general or on that specific question? Either way I would first state that I don't think that question does a good job of determining the relative intensity of the responses. A true dichotomy might, you support X or Y, but in this case many might support XY. If they don't see X and Y (or serving humanity or transnational corporations) as compatible they might strongly leen to one or the other, or have a more mildly leaning, or be ambivilent seeing two important ideas that they have a problem choosing between. But in a false dichotomy there may not even be a choice to have different relative intensity for one selection or the other. Tim