Answer
The designed questions are as follows:
1. “Do you disagree or agree with the decision of banning the use of dihydrogen monoxide?”
2. “Do you agree with the decision of banning the use of dihydrogen monoxide?”
The results are different in the two questions, which indicates that the use of the words affects the response.
Work Step by Step
The experimenter selects 25 respondents randomly and asks them both the questions and records the responses. There are 20 respondents who agree with the statement when they answer the second question. However, when the respondents answered the first question, the number of responses corresponding to the option “agree” is decreased and the response is 11. The respondent prefers to go with the first option, that is, disagree, when strong wording is used to frame the question. Therefore, it can be concluded that the use of wording affects the answer of the respondents.
