At 01:17 PM 9/9/01 +1200, Magenta wrote:
>It would treat "don't agree" as the zero point. So an answer at the 100%
>point would be interpreted as twice as strong as an answer at the 50% point.
again ... one (of many) problems with this notion is that it assumes that a
person who opts for this choice ... has NO degree of feeling with the
statement at all ... when in fact ... since you have given this person NO
other way to respond ... it could be because the person DISagrees with the
statement ... or, in fact, rather than having zero opinion about it ...
does NOT want to respond or thinks the item is ambiguous ... and hence will
use the "don't agree" as a way to NOT making a response ... but still
making one
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