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resulted in there being no

direct

answer

given

to

the most

important

issue

of whether

direct

or elections should

should

not be introduced in 1988.

This is the

most fundamental flaw

and would have been

sufficient

in

itself

to

vitiate

the

reliability of the two surveys in

relation to this

particular

issue.

Section F3, all the experts that I

Secondly, as to the phraseology of the questions in

have consulted as well as

those who have

expressed a

in view

public through the mass

media, are agreed that

the

copied questions

from

the Green

Paper

summary

were much too

complicated

understood by the ordinary citizens of

and technical to be

Hong Kong and that

no

professional survey company should have framed the questions in

that particular way.

was that it

A GB McNair's answer to the Omelco Panel

had decided to adhere straightly to the wording of the options

contained in the summary of the Green Paper as

well as to the

But this was not true

order in which the options were set out.

in relation to some other

issues

in raised

the Green

For example: in Section

A 3

Paper.

which dealt with the Role of the

District Board, the relevant question contained

some additional

words which were a clear improvement. Likewise, in Section Il

which dealt with the sequence and timing

of elections for the

District

Boards,

useful

words had

also been added to

the