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respondents
who
replaced
h ad chosen option (1) in Section F3, that is,
"to make no change in the numbers and relative proportions of
Official, Appointed and Elected Members", might wish to see
direct elections introduced in 1988 by taking option (5) in
Section F5, in which event all or some of the "Elected Members"
mentioned in option (1) in Section F3 would be
by the
directly elected members in option (5) in Section F5. But if
these respondents had not been alert enough also to take option
(4) as a "second mention", which was not at all unlikely, they
would not have been given the further chance of selecting the
options in Section F5. The consequence of AGB McNair having
used "the wrong skip" was that the percentage
supporting the introduction of direct
unfairly reduced thereby.
of
those
elections in 1988 was
When such complicated questions
Average in such an unintelligible manner, what
Government expect to find?
were put to Mr.
results did Our
designing
sir, there can be no excuse for A GB McNair in
such a questionnaire and in deciding to use it not
only for the first survey but also for the second, because it
h ad no less than four opportunities to amend the Questionnaire
after discovering the very high rate of the respondents who did
not know how to answer it, particularly Sections F3 and F5,
had no opinion on them, or did not
understand the options,
or
or