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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