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question to make it easier to understand.
It is pertinent to
note, however, that in relation to these areas where AGB McNair
had decided to depart from the
actual wording of the options
contained in the summary of the Green Paper, these questions
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were nothing
as
complicated
or
technical as
option
(4) in
Section F3
question is: Why did AGB McNair think
dealt which
with
direct
elections.
The obvious
fit to make alterations
to
these less complicated questions
without at the same time
making
any
improvement to
the
most important
but
most
unsatisfactory question in the entire Questionnaire?
Further, the first option in Section F3 was "to make
no change". The second was "to conclude
to the
"to
that direct elections
The third was
element
of direct
Legislative Council are not desirable".
conclude that, in
some principle,
elections is desirable, but that it should not be introduced in
1988".
respondents were
The
therefore
opportunities
to
elections in 1988.
questions
in that it clearly suggested a particular answer.
balanced by an alternative which went the other way.
say
Each of these
"No"
the to
given
introduction
three
clear
of direct
three
was
leading
Each was not
last
When the respondents finally came
option, which was a mouthful, and expressed
convoluted
to the
fourth and
in the most
manner, the respondents really had to reach
the very