yeah, loaded questions are common, especially in politics where they're called "push polls". that just goes to show how reporting of results is so terrible. if more people took stats like yourself there'd be a greater demand for complete reporting of results by media outlets, not just a number by itself that you're just supposed to swallow.
I don't know how into statistics they will get, if at all, but I just started reading this last night.
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The guy just took a box of questionnaires into the roughest projects in Chicago. Question #1 was: How does it feel to be poor and black?
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