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