Aquestionnaire item, distributed to a random sample of adults, reading “are you not in support of nationalizedhealth care”, with a yes or no possible response, would violate which concept?

The correct answer is D) avoid negative terms.

A questionnaire item, distributed to a random sample of adults, reading “Are you not in support of nationalized health care”, with a yes or no possible response, would violate the concept of avoiding negative terms.

When making a survey there are different types of questions that can invite the respondent to answer to get the information needed. There are direct questions, open-ended questions, or double-barred questions. The important thing to get appropriate results is not to bias the question because it encourages people to respond to the question in a particular way. In the case of yes or no questions, it would violate the concept of avoiding negative terms.

The other options of the question were A) avoid double-barreled questions, B) avoid leading the respondent, C)  avoid meaningful questions and E) respondents should be competent to answer.

  a) written constitution. also known as magna carta and a necessity of the democracies that form federations to regulate the principles by which the government will be governed, because if they had to act without a body of specific laws would produce confrontations.

b) territorial division. federalism is constituted by the division of powers on the geographical basis of each territory.

c) decentralization. in a federal system there is both a central government and units of government lower than the central one, each making decisions regarding the provision of certain public services in their respective geographical jurisdictions.

d) supreme court of justice. to counteract the rigidity of the written constitution, judicial action is required to interpret said constitution and necessary changes can be made.