What do polls with simple "yes–no" or "agree–disagree" answer options fail to measure? How can pollsters avoid problems associated with questions that ask only for simple "yes–no" or "agree–disagree" answers?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, Explain that these polling questions do not measure the intensity of respondents' feelings about policy or political issues.
2, Describe how questions with intensity measures can avoid this problem. For example, questions that give respondents a range of answer options (e.g., strongly disagree, disagree, agree, and strongly agree) and open-ended questions will better measure intensity than close-ended yes-or-no questions.
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A) cooperativism B) majoritarianism C) pluralism D) capitalism E) legalism
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a. direct b. indirect c. partisan d. nonpartisan