Discussion
What is the problem with stem of the following question ?
"Do you think it is good idea for children to study physical education and nutrition in primary school ?"
Answer: B
The stem contains a double-barrelled question.
The question asks about two subjects at once: physical education and nutrition. A respondent who thinks children should study physical education but not nutrition, or the reverse, cannot give a meaningful single answer, and the researcher cannot tell which part the answer refers to. The fix is to ask two separate questions.
A leading question pushes the respondent towards an answer, and a loaded question contains an emotionally charged or presumptive assumption. Neither describes this stem, whose fault is joining two issues.
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