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But it is no
that it had followed
instructed
excuse for AGB McNair HK Ltd. to say
the Green Paper unless it had been
expressly to adopt that particular
format in the
Questionnaire. Paragraph 163 was part of a summary of the
Green Paper and it purports to set out the options in Chapter
IV. Now I have repeatedly
thoroughly poorly drafted
criticised
document.
the Green Paper as a
Indeed I have said in
numerous public forums that it was calculated to confuse the
public. It contained much too much trivia, and its draftsman
never intended the public to understand it.
Further, it is abundantly clear that the summary
con ta in ed in the Green Paper was never intended to be used as a
model for questionnaires. For the options summarised in the
Green Paper would be quite meaningless to a respondent in a
public opinion survey unless he h ad read and understood and
could
remember the earlier relevant paragraphs contained in the
Green Paper. According to paragraphs 5.24-5.26 of the Report
of the Survey Office, that would be quite an impossible feat..
Sir, it must have been obvious to AGB McNair HK Ltd.
designing
that in
the questionnaire, it was
of absolute
necessity to frame
questions
which the ordinary man in the
street would be able to comprehend, and that this object would
not be achieved by
copying the clumsily worded paragraph from
the summary of the Green Paper.