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who were "indifferent”. All this illustrates the point that,

without some greater information about the state of knowledge discovered or assumed in respondents, the results of the survey

cannot really be evaluated.

19.

Table 5

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Paragraph 17 This statement does not correspond to

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only 3 of the respondents, not 'most of them felt

that the composition of members should be split equally between

elected and non-elected members. It is true that this group (the one which preferred the equal split between elected and non- elected members in the Legislative Council) is the largest one but

this is not what the paragraph says.

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Paragraph 18 As explained in paragraph 11 above, the

Chinese version of uestion 5 is misleading. The statement that 'some will not but the majority will (vote)' does not correspond to Table 64, which shows 31% will definitely take part or will be most likely to take part, whereas 38% will definitely not take part or will be most unlikely to take part. This is again a case

of misrepresentation.

21.

Paragraph 21

Statistically speaking, there is indeed

a significant difference between 44% and 33%. It may, however, be that the writer was intending to say that thers was no clear-c majority of people who had made up their minds definitely che, vay

or another.

22.

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Paragrach 22 This paragraph seems to incorporate lar guage which is inappropriate to what was intended to be factual reporting: for example, "which is understandablə", "there is a

Further, there big question mark regarding the wisdom of ...".

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